Future king gets baby-blanket coverage

 The chatter about the future heir to the throne did hit overdrive, though, becoming inescapable in both the mainstream and social media. It seemed like everyone had something to say. Fortunately, much of it was quite amusing, not least Prince William declaring to reporters that his boy has “way more hair than me, thank God”.

For most of Monday “It’s a boy” was the most common tweet in the universe. NBC reporter Noppatjak Attanond will insist he was only doing his job when he too screamed, “It’s a boy!”

* British tabloid The Sun went so far as to rename itself The Son for a day. The rival Daily Mail weighed its readers down yesterday with 21 pages of baby news and pictures and then today wondered in a headline “Was the BBC over the top?” with its coverage.

* America’s tabloids wanted to pretend it was nothing special, but the New York Post decided it would be cute to have a baby wearing a crown on its front page. “Crown jewels,” roared the headline. “Kate delivers a baby king.”

* Huffington Post columnist Andrea Mann was a few steps even more removed from the celebratory mood, waxing sarcastic under the headline “Breaking News: Woman Gives Birth to Baby”. “A married woman of childbearing age has given birth to a baby boy,” she wrote. “The event followed nine months of pregnancy. It is now expected that the baby will grow up.”

* The news team at American TV network ABC set a new standard for “breaking news” on Tuesday, tweeting that the parents were “still working on a name”. So, actually, no news at all, then.

* Aston Villa Football Club issued a reminder that William is one of its fans, gloating, “Another Villa fan arrives into the world!” and flashing a tiny team shirt emblazoned with “No 1 HRH”.

* Among the tweets issued by would-be corporate sponsors, cookie company Oreo offered a royal baby-bottle service with the slogan “Long live the cr