How Twitter Is Transforming the One-Line Joke  A tight group of
140-character comedians finds a large community that can relate.
tweet 1.jpg  A composite of one-line jokes from Twitter users
that have seen a surge in followers thanks to their brand of
140-character humor.   Following Alexx Rodriguez around the
campus of the University of Central Florida, no one would get
the sense that the 20-year-old is, in at least one small
microcosm of the world, sort of famous. Hardly any of the
strangers she encounters daily in her classes recognize her.
She's a triple major, studying molecular and microbiology,
biotechnology, and psychology, and hopes to one day become a
reconstructive plastic surgeon. Born in Puerto Rico, she's the
daughter of conservative, Catholic parents (she says her
father's very close to the Romney campaign) and shares many of
their political views; she describes herself as both fiscally
conservative and pro-life, though she does support gay marriage.
When people do recognize her, it's often