The looming Twitpocalypse (and other overhyped news).

Whitney Mitchell again brings us her weekly wrapup of social media news, The Social Pathology Report:

The end of the world is nigh, at least on Twitter, and at least as of Friday afternoon, according to Twitpocalypse.com.

Apparently, a bug similar to Y2K (geez, really?) is going to wipe out the social drug known as Twitter, and people will no longer be able to share with the world their shouts of expertise or the fact that they just found a parking space.

I'm sure Griner will be back to comment on Monday on this weekend's events, but I'll be on a beach somewhere delighting in the suspense!

NOW, onto the week that was.

• Almost every graphic designer here was glued to the computer this week to see the newest of the Mac new, the soon-to-be-released iPhone 3G S. Here's a guided tour, courtesy of GearLive.com.  [Video]
• The internet also brought us the news that Japan's Kaguya lunar probe went out in a blaze of glory, by crashing into the moon's surface at 4,000 mph! [Scientific American]
• Switched raises a pretty haunting question for gamers everywhere: Will Digital Downloads kill video game stores? [Switched]
• Following in this post's tradition of laughing at Twitter hysteria, check out Conan O'Brien's newest endeavor, the Tweet Tracker. [Business Insider]
• Nowadays with Bing, WolframAlpha and LetSimonDecide, it seems decisions are being outsourced as much as some jobs. [ReadWriteWeb]
• Speaking of brainy li'' search engine WolframAlpha, it's now available in app form. Great, now arguments will be settled even more by my husband stopping the conversation while typing away on his iPhone. Thanks guys. [Mashable]

Whitney Sides Mitchell is an intern social media planner for Luckie & Company, founder of the local-music blog BHAM.FM and a music blogger for AL.com. Her Social Pathology Report appears here each Friday.