🔢 Character Counter

Count characters in real-time with social media limits for Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and more.

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🔢 Character Counter

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Social Media Limits

What is the Character Counter?

The character counter analyzes any text you paste in and reports characters (with and without spaces), words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs in real time. It also checks your text against common platform limits — Twitter/X, Instagram captions, LinkedIn posts, Facebook posts, SMS, and YouTube titles — so you can see at a glance whether you're within range.

How to Use It

Paste or type your text into the box. Every count updates instantly as you type, no button needed. Each social media limit shows a progress bar that turns red and flags "Over limit" once you exceed that platform's cap. Use Clear to start over or Copy to grab your text back out.

When to Use It

Use it before posting a tweet, caption, or LinkedIn update to confirm it fits the platform's limit, when writing SEO meta descriptions and titles that need to stay within Google's display length, or when an assignment or submission form specifies an exact word or character count.

Who Benefits

Social media managers checking post length before publishing, students meeting essay word-count requirements, SEO writers fitting meta descriptions and titles, and anyone drafting SMS messages or form fields with a strict character cap.

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Related Guide
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Frequently Asked Questions

Characters count the number of letters, numbers, spaces, and symbols. Bytes depend on encoding — standard ASCII characters use 1 byte, but special characters and emoji use 2–4 bytes in UTF-8. Most platforms, including this counter, limit by characters, not bytes.
It checks your text against Twitter/X (280), Instagram captions (2,200), LinkedIn posts (3,000), Facebook posts (63,206), a single SMS message (160), and YouTube titles (100). Each one shows a live progress bar and flags when you've gone over.
Word count counts space-separated groups of characters, so "2026" or "e-toolbox" each count as one word, same as any regular word. This matches how most word processors count, which matters if you're hitting an exact word limit for an assignment or submission.