Stick your face on this Google+ card to congratulate Wills and Kate on the baby

Want to wish the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge well on the birth of their first born? You’re not alone. The world is tweeting, Facebooking, Instagramming and making memes — even Google is getting in on the action by putting together a giant digital card to congratulate the royal couple.

The UK arm of the tech giant has given Google+ users an easy way to send their wishes — all they have to do is hit that plus one button. Their official Google+ page is playing host to a congratulatory post, which allows you to add your profile photo and name to a digital card by clicking ‘+1’ and approving a photo tag. If you want to add a personalised note, simply reshare the post and add in your message the caption.

All the photos and messages will appear on Google’s dedicated royal baby card site, and the company says it will deliver a printed version of the card to Kensington Palace after the project concludes on 6 August. So far, the post has received over 12 000 plus ones and 5 300 shares since it was posted late yesterday.

But that’s not the craziest stat to come out of the buzz around the royal child. Twitter says that to date their have been more than two-million mentions of the birth, with #RoyalBaby, #RoyalBabyBoy and #RoyalBabyWatch proving the most popular hashtags — #RoyalBaby alone has been used more than 900 000 times. The social network site says that conversation peaked after the baby’s birth was announced, with conversations hitting the 25 300 tweets per minute mark.

But while the news trended worldwide, it didn’t break any records — Andy Murray was mentioned in more tweets per minutes during the 2013 Wimbledon final, but the chatter around the birth did outstrip the royal wedding, which peaked at 16 000 tweets per minute back in 2011.