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| You Are My Rock |
More than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A
Tumblr blog titled “
HelloBlueIvyCarter” popped up on Friday night, displaying five photographs of the baby.
Blue Ivy was born sometime on Jan. 7. The text on the new Tumblr blog reads, “We welcome you to share in our joy. Thank you for respecting our privacy during this this beautiful time in our lives. The Carter Family.”
She is reportedly named after two album titles: Jay-Z’s
The Blueprint and Beyonce’s
4, which is IV in Roman numerals. Tumblr could not be reached for comment by press time.
The photos likely will spark significant traffic on Tumblr, which after an explosive 2011 started this year by revealing impressive numbers that highlight the micro-blogging platform’s continue growth: 15 billion monthly page views and 120 million monthly unique visitors.
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| Pls no pings....gotta sleep (lol) |
Blue Ivy made a name for herself before she even had a name or was born. At the end of a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce confirmed her pregnancy by dropping her mic, unbuttoning her top and rubbing her baby bump. The “bump” moment broke Twitter’s tweets-per-second record at the time with 8,868 tweets per second. (Four unrelated events have since surpassed the “bump” in the record books.)
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| Sup Mom... |
While the weekend birth didn’t reach the buzz level the bump did at the VMAs, Twitter did experience a significant spike. Social analytics firm
Simply Measured told
Mashable in January that tweets per minute peaked at 2,379 tweets at 11:15 p.m. PT on Jan. 7, which is a “healthy number for a non-televised, rumor driven event.” The chart below shows the rise in the mentions of “baby,” “Blue” and “birth.”
Hip hop pioneer Russell Simmons was the first celebrity to congratulate Beyonce and Jay-Z via a
tweet, according to Simply Measured. Other big-name Twitter users followed suit. Here is a list of some of the most-followed Twitter users who mentioned “Beyonce” during the time period measured above.
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| Take my hand and bring forth joy |
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| Proud father |
Two days after Blue Ivy was born, her parents revealed an audio recording of the infant for the first time. The Jay-Z song “Glory” (listen below) features Blue Ivy at the end of the track after the proud poppa raps, “Words can’t describe what I’m feeling for real. Baby, I paint the sky blue. My greatest creation was you.” Jay-Z announced the song Jan. 9 via a
tweet, which includes a link to the track on his web site
Life + Times.
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