250,000 English words currently available as Twitter handles

I was about to sort them by letter count, but there's a txt of 4 letter handles: <a href="http://peticol.as/twitter-handles/4-letter-ok-sounding.txt" rel="nofollow">http://peticol.as/twitter-handles/4-letter-ok-sounding.txt</a>

Output at <a href="http://pastebin.com/18vCegaT" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/18vCegaT</a><p>grep -P '(phobe|phile|ist)\s*$'<p>@categorist or @pantywaist, anyone?

Hard to believe @abdominohysterectomy is still available. Jackpot.<p>Edit: Equally fortunate: abdominohysterectomy.com is available.<p><a href="http://www.whois.com/whois/abdominohysterectomy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.whois.com/whois/abdominohysterectomy.com</a><p>Jokes asides, it would be useful to cross check this with domain availability and username availability on other _popular_ social sites.

This is OT: I've always wanted to take a crack at a couple of problems/semi-thought-experiments I came up with:<p>1) Find the verified Twitter account followed by minimum number of users - This is easy, since Twitter maintains an official list of verified accounts at <a href="https://twitter.com/verified/following" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/verified/following</a> . We could iterate over this list, and find the minimum.<p>2) Find the maximum-followed non-verified Twitter account. Now this is a harder problem. Does anyone have any ideas apart from brute-forcing Twitter handles?

At least @arsefeet is available - don't all rush to get it at once

I hope people don't use this to park twitter usernames.

...and yet every permutation of "Brian Willis" is taken. Many of which are spam accounts which twitter seems completely uninterested in killing off.

Some may be reserved keywords - e.g. accounts is available, twitter.com/accounts returns a 404, but you are unable to register the username.

You might want to filter out words which are too long to actually be Twitter handles.

I made a python script for this purpose a while back. Supports brute force and dictionaries.<p><a href="https://github.com/process/Twitter-Name-Finder" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/process/Twitter-Name-Finder</a>

top 50, sorted by frequency<p>all me leave events resources myself post status pages accounts positions discuss administrative remove root join session statistics phone friendship blocks focused links responsibilities administered explore suspended sessions receptors discusses characterization practised translate ensuring frontiers stationed industrialization telecommunications distinguishes occurrences condensed resembled rapidity legislatures misunderstanding gastrointestinal administering discharges ensued characterizes

One short-ish reasonable sounding one I was surprised wasn't taken was "kobold"...you'd think that some tabletop gaming fan somewhere would have gotten that one!

This is why I like Perl,<p><pre><code> perl -e 'print sort{length $a &#60;=&#62; length $b} &#60;&#62;' english-words.txt &#62; sorted.txt</code></pre>

Thanks. I'm getting <i>tetramethoxypropenylbenzenes</i>.

The real experiment is to run the script again and find out how many people are parking the good ones now that i've distributed this list

No need to create a list quite that long, seeing as though Twitter doesn't allow handles longer than 15 characters in length.

Could have mentioned link includes them all... Dat mobile loading.

Awesome, got a good one

cool - just snagged one

no 3-letter handlers?