Representatives don't give a fuck what their constituents have to say on social media. It's full of foreign trolls and bots.
But if you go in person to a town hall / public hearing on an agenda item, they know that you are:
- A real person
- An American
- Extremely likely to vote in the next election.
Source: I successfully killed a local zoning change by convincing my neighbors to go out and speak against it, despite lobbying from a large developer.

Aww man, I really miss that show