Character Counter
Instantly count characters and check if your text fits Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, SEO titles, and SMS limits.
Check Character Limits Online
Our Character Counter is an essential optimization tool tailored specifically for social media managers, SEO experts, and writers who need to adhere to strict character limit constraints. Ensure your messages, posts, and meta tags fit perfectly within the designated space.
It provides real-time progress bars for major platforms including Twitter (X), Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and SEO titles. By tracking characters with and without spaces, you can easily tweak your text to perfection without ever guessing if your carefully crafted caption or title will be cut off by the platform's constraints.
Like our standard Word Counter, this tool includes built-in auto-save functionality. Your text is continuously saved in your browser, enabling you to seamlessly switch between the Word Counter and Character Counter tools without losing a single keystroke.
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Why Character Count Matters
Character counting is critical whenever you are writing for a platform with strict limits. Getting it wrong means your text gets cut off, rejected, or penalized — and no amount of good writing makes up for a truncated headline.
Here are the limits you will hit most often. Twitter/X allows 280 characters per tweet. Instagram bios cap at 150 characters. Meta descriptions should land between 150 and 160 characters to display correctly in search results without being cut. SMS messages are capped at 160 characters per segment, and going over splits your message into two, which costs more and looks messy. TikTok bios allow only 80 characters. Email subject lines should stay under 60 characters to avoid being truncated in most inboxes.
This tool counts both characters with spaces and characters without spaces. That distinction matters for academic submissions — many universities and journals specify a character limit that excludes spaces, so using the wrong count can mean submitting something that is over the limit without realizing it.
All counts update instantly as you type, and nothing is sent to a server. Your text stays private.
The standard Twitter (X) character limit is 280 characters per tweet. Our tool provides a real-time progress bar to ensure you stay within this limit.
Instagram allows up to 2,200 characters in a post caption, and up to 30 hashtags. Our Character Counter specifically tracks Instagram limits.
Yes, standard character counts include spaces. However, our character counter tool immediately displays both the total character count and the character count without spaces.
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