# How charities joined in the Twitter chat about the #RoyalBaby

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/07/23/how-charities-joined-twitter-chat-about-royalbaby/
- Published: 2013-07-23T14:49:26+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The announcement yesterday morning that the Duchess of Cambridge had gone into labour
generated extensive and excessive chatter on social media channels. As such this
offered a tempting opportunity for charities to join in and get their messages across.

Anything with a royal baby theme it seemed was fair game. UK Fundraising was curious
to see which charities joined in and what tone and style they adopted. Here is our
far from comprehensive summary of what we saw on Twitter.

 

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