Character Counter
Count characters with detailed breakdown and social media limits
Calculator
Character Breakdown
Platform Limits
About Character Counter
- Counts all characters including spaces, punctuation, and special characters
- Shows character limits for popular social media platforms
- Useful for SEO meta descriptions, social media posts, and more
- All counting happens locally - your text is never sent to any server
How to Use
Count characters for social media
Paste text
Enter or paste your content
View counts
See characters, words, sentences
Check limits
Compare against platform limits
See breakdown
View letters, numbers, spaces separately
Frequently Asked Questions
Twitter/X: 280 characters. Instagram caption: 2,200. Facebook post: 63,206. LinkedIn post: 3,000. TikTok caption: 2,200. YouTube title: 100, description: 5,000. SMS: 160 (or 70 with special characters).
ASCII characters are 1 byte each. Unicode characters (emoji, Chinese, Arabic) can be 2-4 bytes. "Hello" = 5 chars, 5 bytes. "Hello 👋" = 7 chars, 9 bytes (emoji is 4 bytes). Some systems limit bytes, not characters.
Yes, spaces are characters and count toward limits. Each space is one character. Line breaks may count as 1 or 2 characters depending on the system (Windows uses \r\n = 2, Unix uses \n = 1).
Characters: total letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation. Words: sequences separated by whitespace. "Hello, world!" = 13 characters (including space and punctuation), 2 words. Different platforms count differently.
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