Maktoum and Princess Haya have been blessed with a baby boy. The boy has been named Zayed, after the founder of the UAE Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan. The ruler of Dubai made the announcement on his Twitter account and the news quickly spread, starting with his more than 600,000 Twitter followers. “Princess Haya and I were blessed with a baby boy. We named him Zayed,” Sheikh Mohammed posted in his account. He received thousands of greetings and wishes on his page on Facebook for his new baby. Alex McNabb, a public relations consultant, said there was a clear trend for public figures to use social media to announce important news in recent years. “I'm not surprised Sheikh Mohammed has announced this news on Twitter, because he is savvy when it comes to things like this,” he said. “I remember he also used Twitter for the Burj Khalifa announcement, so for something like this, which will generate a lot of positive responses, it's not a difficult decision to make.” __
