Sometimes you just need to close Twitter, and back away

I love this headline:

Guy live-Twitter’s wife’s childbirth, lives to tell about it

The man actually Twittered his child’s birth…live. I can see the value in dropping in a 140-character gem of an announcement after the fact, say in the waiting room in between phoning relatives. But LIVE?

The shock is somewhat tempered (or amplified?) by the news that he also streamed the birth live via Ustream, which is vastly stranger to my taste. Some things just need to stay private.

But hats off to Paul and his wife, both for bringing their beautiful baby into the world and also for giving all the rest of us geeks a bit more breathing room in the What’s Acceptable department.