Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich continues his unorthodox publicity blitz by using Twitter during his federal corruption trial, the Chicago News Cooperative reports.
"In the past year or so, political writers have breathlessly written about the meaning of Twitter in American politics, while simultaneously charting politicians' increasing use of the site in their campaigning and governing. But rare, if unprecedented, is the example of a politician (or ex-politician, as it were) seizing the technology amidst a fall from grace, to say nothing of a federal trial."