Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces as you type, and see straight away whether your text fits an X post, an SMS, a Google title tag or a meta description. Letters, digits, spaces, lines and bytes are counted too.
Count characters
What counts as a character
Every letter, number, space, punctuation mark and line break is one character. An emoji or symbol outside the basic set counts as one character here (one Unicode code point), although some systems store it as two. “No spaces” removes spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Bytes
UTF-8 size: 1 byte for English letters and digits, 2 for most accented letters, 3 for most Asian scripts, 4 for emojiCharacter limits by platform
| Where | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| X (Twitter) post | 280 | Free accounts; links count as 23 |
| Google title tag | ≈ 60 | Display is cut at about 600 pixels |
| Meta description | ≈ 155–160 | Longer text is truncated in results |
| SMS text message | 160 | 70 if it contains emoji or non-Latin text |
| YouTube video title | 100 | About 70 show in search |
| Instagram caption | 2,200 | Cut after about 125 in the feed |
| LinkedIn post | 3,000 | “See more” after about 210 |
SMS length rules
A single SMS holds 160 characters in the standard GSM-7 alphabet. As soon as a message contains an emoji, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese or other characters outside that alphabet, it switches to UCS-2 and the limit drops to 70. Longer messages are split into segments of 153 (GSM) or 67 (Unicode) characters, and each segment is billed as one message.
Frequently asked questions
Do spaces count as characters?
Yes, on almost every platform, including X, SMS and Google. Use the “no spaces” figure only when a form says so, such as some university applications.
How many characters is 100 words?
English averages about 5 letters per word plus a space, so 100 words is roughly 550–600 characters with spaces.
Is my text stored?
No. Everything is counted in your browser.