“…Previous studies of the potential of Twitter in electoral processes (Noguera, 2013;Rodríguez and Ureña, 2012;Zamora-Medina, Sánchez-Cobarro and Martínez, 2017;Zugasti-Azagra and Pérez-González, 2015) concur that it is the most popular micro-blogging network among politicians and journalists, relegating Facebook and even their own websites to second place (Abejón et al, 2017), with statistics demonstrating the relationship between engagement and electoral success (Ballesteros et al, 2017), albeit with a unidirectional use (Graham et al 2013) and many underused tools (Ballesteros et al, 2017;Cheng, 2017;Congosto-Martínez, 2014;Dader, 2017). There are thus more reasons in favor than against choosing Twitter as a platform, in line with the sample's subject (who) and object (what).…”