LONDON — With the hashtag “royalbaby” trending globally on Twitter after news of the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy broke, it wasn't long before an unofficial Twitter account for the first royal baby of the online age was born. The spoof account, with the handle @RoyalFetus and the location “I live inside a princess,” sent its first tweet on April 30, 2011 — a day after the former Kate Middleton married Prince William. It remained inactive until the royal pregnancy was announced Monday, when it sent its first tweet in more than a year: “I EXIST!!!!!” Tweeting funny, tongue-in-cheek posts — such as “I may not have bones yet, but I'm already more important than everyone reading this. #royalbaby #sorry” and “Right now, emoticons are the closest thing I have to a face. :-) :-/ :-$” — the account has gained more than 9,000 followers within less than 24 hours of its re-activation. — SG
