Originally Posted by
october_midnight
3. Follow up to the last point, let's say we BOTH follow the same person...Trent Reznor. If you tweet '@trent_reznor I enjoy your ass.' and I follow the person as well, then it WILL show up in my timeline as well...since we both follow the same person. So if I tweet to someone you follow as well, you see it (because if you followed me, you'd see it...and you follow the 3rd person...so again you see it.) If I tweet to my friend, even though you may follow me, again you wouldn't...unless you followed my friend as well. If that makes sense.