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Character Counter

Count characters in real time for any social media platform. Type or paste your content and instantly see how many characters you've used, how many remain, and where you stand against every platform's limit.

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Twitter/X · 280 limit
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All platform limits at a glance:

Character Limits for Every Major Platform

Twitter/X

Standard accounts: 280 characters per tweet. X Premium (Blue): up to 25,000 characters for long-form posts. URLs in tweets always count as 23 characters regardless of actual length. Images and videos don't count toward the character limit. Reply threads let you chain unlimited tweets.

Instagram

Captions: up to 2,200 characters, but the feed only shows approximately 125 characters before truncating with "...more". Front-load your hook in the first 125 characters. Bio: 150 characters. Username: 30 characters. Stories text: no official limit but keep under 200 for readability. DMs: 1,000 characters.

LinkedIn

Posts: 3,000 characters. Articles (Publisher): 125,000 characters. Headline: 220 characters. Summary/About: 2,000 characters. Connection request message: 300 characters (important — keep pitches very short). Comments: 1,250 characters.

TikTok

Video captions: 2,200 characters (increased from 300 in 2022). Bio: 80 characters. Comments: 150 characters. Hashtags in captions count toward the 2,200 character limit.

YouTube

Video title: 100 characters (first 70 shown in search). Description: 5,000 characters (first 157 shown as preview). Channel name: 100 characters. Community posts: 5,000 characters. Comments: 10,000 characters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do emojis count as one character or multiple?
It depends on the platform and emoji. Standard single-character emojis (like 😀) typically count as 2 characters in Twitter's counting system because they use Unicode surrogate pairs. Complex emojis like family or skin-tone variants can count as 6–14 characters. This tool displays the raw character count as most platforms measure it.
Do links count toward the character limit on Twitter?
Yes. Twitter automatically shortens all URLs (regardless of length) to t.co links that count as exactly 23 characters. Whether you paste a 8-character URL or a 200-character one, it counts as 23 characters in your tweet.
What's the ideal caption length for Instagram engagement?
Research by Later, Sprout Social, and Hootsuite consistently finds that captions between 138–150 characters get the highest engagement rate. However, educational and storytelling content performs well with longer captions (400–700 characters). The key is front-loading your most engaging content before the truncation point (~125 characters).