Character counter
Live character count with and without spaces — and progress bars for the limits that matter: X posts, Instagram captions and bios, SEO tags and SMS.
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Character counter
About the limits
X/Twitter counts 280 characters (URLs count as 23). Instagram captions truncate around 125 characters in feed but allow 2,200. Google typically shows about 160 characters of a meta description and 60 of a title tag. A single SMS segment is 160 GSM characters — emojis switch the message to Unicode encoding and shrink it to 70.
Frequently asked questions
Do emojis count as one character?
Visually yes, technically often more — many emojis are several Unicode code units, and platforms count them differently. The counter here counts code units, which matches how most limits are enforced.
Why does the without-spaces count matter?
Some academic and translation word counts bill by characters excluding spaces — both numbers are shown live.