Character Counter
0 Characters
0 Without Spaces
0 Words
0 Sentences
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📱 Platform Character Limits
🐦 Twitter / X Post
0 / 280
💬 SMS Message
0 / 160
🔍 Meta Description
0 / 160
📸 Instagram Caption
0 / 2,200
💼 LinkedIn Post
0 / 3,000
📘 Facebook Post
0 / 63,206
🔤 Character Breakdown
Uppercase 0
Lowercase 0
Numbers 0
Special Chars 0
Spaces 0
Punctuation 0
📝 Text Structure
Paragraphs 0
Lines 0
Avg Word Length 0
Longest Word 0
📊 Most Used Characters
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About Our Character Counter Tool
Count every character, letter, and symbol in your text instantly with our free online character counter tool. Whether you're writing a tweet that needs to fit within Twitter's 280-character limit, composing an SMS message, crafting a meta description for SEO, or creating content for any platform with character restrictions, this comprehensive tool provides real-time character counting and detailed text analysis. Simply type or paste your text and see instant results with visual indicators showing how close you are to various platform limits.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between characters with and without spaces?
"Characters" counts every single character in your text including all letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and spaces. "Characters without spaces" excludes all whitespace (spaces, tabs, line breaks) and only counts visible characters. Different platforms have different counting methods—Twitter and most social media count spaces, while some text messaging systems and certain publishing platforms don't count spaces. Our tool provides both counts so you can meet any platform's requirements accurately.
How does the tool handle different platform character limits?
The tool displays real-time progress bars for major platforms including Twitter (280 characters), SMS (160 characters), Meta Description (160 characters), Instagram (2,200 characters), LinkedIn (3,000 characters), and Facebook (63,206 characters). As you type, these bars fill up and change color: green when safe, yellow at 80% capacity as a warning, and red when you exceed the limit. This visual feedback helps you optimize content length before posting and avoid truncated messages.
What counts as a special character?
Special characters include any character that isn't a letter (A-Z, a-z), number (0-9), or basic punctuation mark. This includes symbols like @, #, $, %, &, *, emojis, accented letters (é, ñ, ü), mathematical symbols, currency symbols, and other Unicode characters. The tool categorizes characters into uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation (.,!?;:), spaces, and special characters to give you a complete breakdown of your text composition.
Why would I need to reverse text or remove spaces?
The reverse text feature is useful for creative purposes like creating mirror text, palindrome checking, or generating stylized social media posts. Removing spaces creates compact text useful for hashtags, usernames, code snippets, or fitting text into extremely limited spaces. Some systems and databases also require space-free input. These utility features save you time compared to manually editing text, and you can easily copy the modified result or undo the change by typing in the editor again.
Does the character counter work with emojis and special symbols?
Yes! The character counter accurately counts all Unicode characters including emojis (😊, 🎉, 💯), accented letters (à, é, ñ, ü), special symbols (™, ©, €, £), mathematical symbols (×, ÷, ±), and characters from non-Latin alphabets (中文, العربية, हिन्दी, Русский). Each emoji typically counts as 1-2 characters depending on its complexity. This ensures accurate counting for modern social media content where emojis are commonly used, matching how platforms like Twitter and Instagram count these characters.