Character Counter

What is a Character Counter?

A character counter is an online tool designed to calculate the character length of a given piece of text, typically used to calculate the length of a piece of text, such as an article, tweet, or meta description of a website.

How does a character counter work?

A character counter works by counting each character in a text, and also includes calculating characters such as letters, numbers, punctuation marks, spaces, and more.

What is a character counter used for?

Social media platforms often apply character limits to posts, where a character counter makes it easy for users to change the length of their message text. In professional writing, there are often strict limits on the number of characters allowed. By using a character counter, you can ensure that the content meets the requirements.

How to use the character counter?

Type or paste the text to be counted and the tool will automatically calculate the number of characters and other data.

Does the character count include spaces?

Yes, the character count includes spaces. We use the same counting rules as most character counting sites.

What is the character limit for common social media posts?

Twitter: Tweets on Twitter initially had a 140 character limit, but this was later extended to 280 characters.

Facebook: Facebook posts are limited to 63,206 characters.

Instagram: Instagram allows posts to contain up to 2,200 characters.

Please note: These character limits may change over time as platforms update their policies.