List of three-letter twitter names (march 27th, 2012)

Twitter names that are only one or two letters long are all given away already. I asked myself whether there are still three-letter names available (see also my post: some statistics on three-letter twittername users).

Available three letter names. A rough guess for the last
name to be taken is early may 2012.

I wrote a primitive crawler (all hail to lynx! [edit and curl !] ) which could give answer.

Including digits (0-9) and the underscore ('_') there are about 37^3 = 50653 names available (theoretically). 
There are in total still 344 free names. (March 8th, 2012 at 8 p.m. EST)
There are in total still 220 free names. (March 28, 2012 at 12 a.m. EST)
There are in total still 118 free names. (April 26, 2012 at 12 a.m. EST)

[July 05] : As far as i know, now all names are taken. Maybe there is a chance about getting the accounts that are banned due to abuse at some point, but i don't know twitters policy about that. That are about 1400, but the API prevents direct requests about suspended users (Maybe i fiddle it out some time).

There are only 5 names left that contain no number.
[Mar 10] There are only 3 names left that contain no number
[Mar 12] Usernames that contain no number: they are all gone.

oop  
lxn 
tw_
xog
vz_
[edit March 12]


There are 70 left which at least begin with a letter
[Apr 20] There are 10 left which at least begin with a letter.

[Apr 24] There are 7 left which at least begin with a letter.

[Apr 26] There are 8 left which at least begin with a letter.

[Apr 27] There are 6 left which at least begin with a letter.

[May 01] There are 5 left which at least begin with a letter.

[May 03] There are 4 left which at least begin with a letter.

[May 05] There are 3 left which at least begin with a letter.

[May 15] There are 2 left which at least begin with a letter.

[May 16] Usernames which at least begin with a letter: they are all gone.

hq5   j7g   o6q   q5u

q5v   w6j   y5v   y6v

Looks like a WWII film about cyphers, right? There are still 277 quite ugly names that begin with a number or an underscore:
[Apr 22] There are still 119 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[Apr 24] There are still 113 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[Apr 26] There are still 111 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[Apr 27] There are still 108 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[Apr 30] There are still 105 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 01] There are still 103 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 03] There are still 97 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 05] There are still 96 names beginning with a number or an underscore:

[May 15] There are still 82 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 16] There are still 78 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 18] There are still 73 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 22] There are still 68 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 24] There are still 61 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 28] There are still 47 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 29] There are still 42 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 30] There are still 37 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[May 31] There are still 33 names beginning with a number or an underscore:
[June 04] There is only one left:
[July 05] : As far as i know, now all names are taken. Maybe there is a chance about getting the accounts that are banned due to abuse at some point, but i don't know twitters policy about that. That are about 1400, but the API prevents direct requests about suspended users (Maybe i fiddle it out some time).

5qf

Decline of the available 3-letter-usernames within the last 3 months. Despite
the last week,  we have a nice exponential decay.

Further Reading:
[edit] In the meantime, I found some related pages that might interest you:

• on this blog: some statistics on three-letter twittername users
• Nearly 18,000 Three-Letter Names Left on Twitter (2009) 
• Somebody sells (sold) 3-letter-twitternames - shame on you! 
• Meet the People Who Scored Twitter’s Shortest Usernames: gallery of all the one-letter users (2011) 
• Want a short twitter screen name? Not a chance! (2011)