Designer Sara Williams updated friends and hundreds of thousands of strangers live online after going into labour.
Designer Sara Williams updated friends and hundreds of thousands of strangers live online after going into labour.
"Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn't like Charlotte in Sex and the City. Now, timing contractions on an iPhone app," was her first tweet on the labour.
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Connected: Twitter CEO Evan Williams and wife Sara |
Her updates quickly spread beyond her own 12,000 followers to become one of the most-discussed topics on Twitter, as users waited for the story to unfold.
Six hours into labour, she wrote, "Epidural, yes please."
Husband Evan Williams has been uncharacteristically silent online, despite the deluge of good wishes for the couple.
Williams is part of a growing trend spearheaded by her husband's site since its launch in 2007 of sharing the minutiae of personal life on the web.
Two years ago, Twitter user Paul Saarinen made his daughter Elle an instant web celebrity when he became the first father to tweet updates, pictures and video throughout a birth.
Several more expectant parents have adopted the trend since, despite criticism.
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