Count characters, letters, digits, and special characters in your text. Analyze your content in real-time.
A character counter is a tool that counts the number of characters in your text. It's useful for social media posts, meta descriptions, SMS messages, and any content with character limits. If you use Google Docs, check out our guide on how to check word count on Google Docs. For Microsoft Word users, learn how to count characters in Word. You can also learn how to check word count in Word. Excel users can learn how to count characters in Excel.
| Platform | Character Limit |
|---|---|
| Twitter/X Post | 280 characters |
| Meta Title (SEO) | 60 characters |
| Meta Description (SEO) | 160 characters |
| SMS Message | 160 characters |
| Instagram Bio | 150 characters |
A character counter is an essential tool for writers, marketers, developers, and anyone who works with text. Whether you're crafting the perfect tweet, optimizing meta descriptions for SEO, or ensuring your SMS messages fit within limits, accurate character counting saves time and prevents errors.
Characters with spaces includes all characters in your text including spaces, tabs, and line breaks. Characters without spaces excludes all whitespace characters, counting only visible characters like letters, numbers, and punctuation.
Twitter/X has a 280 character limit for posts. Use our character counter to check your total character count (with spaces) to ensure your tweet fits within the limit. URLs and mentions may count differently on Twitter.
Special characters include punctuation marks (!@#$%^&*), symbols, emojis, and any characters that are not letters, numbers, or spaces. Our tool counts these separately to help you analyze your text composition.
Character counting is crucial for SEO because meta titles should be under 60 characters and meta descriptions under 160 characters to display properly in search results. Exceeding these limits can result in truncated text in search listings.
Yes, our character counter accurately counts Unicode characters and emojis. Note that some emojis may count as multiple characters due to their technical encoding, which is important when posting to platforms with strict character limits.