Twitter is great, but unfortunately there's always that spoilt kid who wants to ruin the experience for everyone else. If you've used Twitter for more than a couple of days, I'm certain your experience will have been marred by the marketers, spammers and general fools who are desperate to make a quick buck off the rest of us.

My solution? ... 10 instant Follower #FAILS awarded as follows.....

Have you ever registered a domain name, then taken a look at it and had second thoughts? Well, imagine how these guys felt when they saw their first listings in Google.

24 of the worst domain names ever.... (Tip: rollover the domain names if you don't get them)

There have been 37 declared domain sales over $1 million dollars since 2003 - here they are in all there glory listed with the highest prices first.

These are sales of undeveloped domain names only - sales of websites, such as Business.com, are not included here. This list is not likely to be complete, as many high ticket sales are never publicly disclosed due to the nature of the sales agreement. Unconfirmed or cash plus stock sales are also missing, like Rick Schwartz's recently disclosed sale of Candy.com for $3 million.

The majority of people who invest in domain names look upon LLL.com (or domain names made up of three letters, such as dfg.com or thj.com) as being amongst the most valuable names out there.

The reasons for this?

Well, they are short, which makes them quick to type in, quite a few of them are memorable, especially if you use them as acronyms for memorable phrases - think of CNN - Cable News Networks or BLT - Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato. They are also relatively rare, since there are only 26 x 26 x 26 of them, or 17,576 in total, and all were registered by around late 2000, early 2001, not counting those that were subsequently dropped.

This ability to form useful three letter acronyms (or TLAs) means that some of them also get appreciable traffic - mostly from people looking for other items, organisations, objects of companies using the same three letters....  ...and unfortunately, this is where, as a serious domain investor, investing in LLL.com is increasingly looking a bit dangerous as a long term stategy.