MotionShine01 / Characters
One per symbol you see
Emoji, flags and letters with accents count once, as you see them, not as the several code points underneath.
Free tool
Character counter, every limit checked.
Type or paste text to count characters as you go, with and without spaces, the way people see them: an emoji or an accented letter counts once. You also get letters, digits, words, sentences, lines and bytes, a bar for each common limit (X posts, Instagram captions, YouTube titles and descriptions, LinkedIn posts, search titles), your own limit if you set one, and how many parts a text message will be split into.
Text message
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characters
Limits
The X count follows X's own rules: a link counts as 23, an emoji and most non-Latin letters as 2. Search title and meta description lengths are guides, not hard limits.
Most used characters
Your text is counted in your browser and never sent anywhere.
What counts
Characters, the way you see them.
02 / Limits
X counts differently
X weighs links as 23 and emoji as 2, so a post can be over the limit before 280 visible characters. The bar uses X's count.
03 / SMS
Parts and alphabets
A text fits 160 plain characters; one emoji switches it to Unicode, which fits 70. Longer texts split into 153 or 67 a part.
Questions
Good to know.
Does a space count as a character?
Yes, in most limits, including X, Instagram and SMS. The counter shows both totals, with and without spaces.
How many characters can an X post have?
280 on a standard account, counted X's way: links count as 23 and emoji as 2. The bar here uses that weighting.
Why does my text message split so early?
One emoji or a special character switches the whole message to Unicode, which fits 70 characters a part instead of 160.
What is the Instagram caption limit?
2,200 characters. YouTube titles allow 100 and descriptions 5,000; LinkedIn posts 3,000.
Is my text saved?
Only in this browser, so it is there if you reload. Nothing is sent anywhere.