Twitter Question: If you "reply" to someone on twitter who is NOT following you...do they even see it?

Twitter Question: If you "reply" to someone on twitter who is NOT following you...do they even see it?
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Only if they look. I believe you can fix it so you see replies to you in your stream, but logically, they would simply click the button that let’s you see whatever has been sent @you most recently.
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