Character Counter
Count characters and check social media platform limits instantly
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What is a Character Counter?
A character counter is a tool that counts every individual character in a piece of text — letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation, and symbols. Unlike a word counter, which only counts word units, a character counter gives you the exact length of your text at the character level.
Character counts are essential whenever you're writing for platforms with strict length limits: tweets on X/Twitter, Instagram captions, SMS messages, meta descriptions for SEO, or LinkedIn posts. Exceeding a platform's limit means your text gets cut off or rejected — knowing your character count in real time prevents that.
How to Use This Tool
- Type or paste your text into the input area above.
- See your character count, word count, and line count update instantly.
- Check the platform limit cards to see how close you are to each platform's maximum.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Standard X (formerly Twitter) accounts have a 280 character limit per post. X Premium subscribers (Blue) have a significantly higher limit of 25,000 characters for long-form posts. URLs always count as 23 characters regardless of their actual length due to Twitter's URL shortener.
A single SMS message supports 160 characters when using the standard GSM-7 character set (Latin characters, numbers, and common punctuation). If you include any non-GSM characters (like emojis or accented letters), the limit drops to 70 characters per segment. Messages longer than the limit are automatically split into multiple segments.
Yes — in nearly all contexts (Twitter, Instagram, SMS, meta descriptions), a space is counted as one character. This counter shows both "Characters" (including spaces) and "No spaces" so you can see both figures. When dealing with platform limits, always use the total character count that includes spaces.
Google typically displays meta descriptions up to about 155–160 characters in search results. Descriptions longer than this get truncated with "…" which can cut off your message. For best results, keep meta descriptions between 120 and 155 characters. This tool's "Meta Description" limit card shows you when you're in the ideal range.
Instagram captions support up to 2,200 characters. However, only the first 125 characters are shown before the "more" link, so the most important content should come at the start. Hashtags count toward the character limit — a typical hashtag is 10–20 characters including the # symbol.