June 5, 2009
Birth Contractions Make Twittering Harder, But Not Impossible
You expect wacky names from celebrity rock music parents (think music producer Bob Geldof and his brood, including Fifi, Pixie, Peaches, and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, to name just one family) so it should come as no surprise that rock couple Gerard Way, of My Chemical Romance, and bassist Lyn-Z of Mindless Self Indulgence, have named their newborn daughter Bandit Lee. No word yet on how they came up with that unique baby name.
The big surprise is how modest they have been about the birth. It has become de rigeur for celebrity couples to blab about their new arrivals on Twitter pages — sometimes even giving us a blow-by-blow of the actual birth (See Kimora Lee Simmons, below). So I was oddly touched to see that Way and Lyn-Z had not twittered their way through labor, but actually kept it private! How old-fashioned! How cute! How romantic!
Meanwhile, Baby Phat fashion CEO Kimora Lee Simmons couldn’t stop twittering while she was delivering, keeping her 18,856 followers in the loop as son Kenzo arrived on May 30, letting everyone know she was “having contractions now! Ooo- wee! It’s like WHOA! Love & Light, KLS”
How the heck did she tap that out while she was having contractions? Oh, maybe that’s why it’s only about half the usual 140 characters allowed on Twitter. Giving birth and multi-tasking is asking a lot, even from compulsive Twitterers.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong went a step further in sharing his special moment, as girlfriend Anna Hansen gave birth to son Max on June 4. He annouced the arrival on his Twitter page, but as everyone knows, you can’t post photos on a Twitter page (yet). Undeterred, and determined to show off his 1-day-old son to his almost 1 million followers, Armstrong linked from his Tweet to a baby photo on YFrog. Just in case they were feeling left out, he also linked to the delivering nurse and doctor. What, no photo of Mom?
photo credit: PR Photos
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