Twitter, iPhones, Tumblr, and other new communications tools were indispensable during the the Eliot Spitzer Ashley Alexandra Dupre scandal, sex workers say. Spokespeople for the profession organized a media blitz using these and other technologies. Wired's Regina Lynn reports.

[Former sex worker and Desiree Alliance founder Melissa] Gira was attending the South by Southwest conference in Austin,
Texas, when she found herself thrust into the media spotlight during
the Spitzer meltdown. (She was covering the conference for Valleywag.)

"The only way to survive the barrage of reporters and questions from
the sex-worker organizations was to buy an iPhone," she says. "South by
Southwest was so horrible for iPhone peer pressure -- I was hardly the
only person to leave with one."

Activists developed a list of current and former sex workers willing
to talk about the escort industry, along with what types of media they
could and couldn't do, and whether they would give out their real
names.

"Lots of people were at South by Southwest [when the Spitzer story
broke] and didn'