“I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter Roback, Andrew Hemphill, Libby twitter Congress political communication social media Using tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when using Twitter to lobby their elected officials. In contrast to earlier research, we found that constituents do use Twitter to try to engage their officials and not just as a “soapbox” to express their opinions. 2012-12-03 2013 Article Manuscript application/pdf islandora:10214 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2888 HUM / Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access