This is the way the world ends...

... not with a bang, but a Twitter. A while back I posted about nanofiction as a new use for the emerging social media. I gave a couple of examples of the way authors were using Twitter in this manner. Today code shaman Chris Miller posted a collaborative endeavor he and a few other Twitter users engaged in back in September, to great effect. Together, they covered the beginning of the end of the world, the initial stages of Zombiegeddon. It looks like it was a lot of fun, especially the way people jumped in and played along. I also think it's a pretty good picture of how the end of the world will be covered in this digital age. He starts out just reporting an odd incident he observes from a Starbucks, and describes how things become increasingly strange and take a turn for the frightening. I suspect when the real zombie apocalypse begins, we'll have a great many of these reports sent across the net, as long as the let lasts.