Count characters as you type — and see at a glance whether your text fits a tweet, a meta description, an SMS, or a YouTube title.
Select a platform to pin it above. Guidance is a writing suggestion; estimates should be checked in the platform’s composer.
The headline counts Unicode characters. Platform checks may use weighted counts or encoding units instead.
Periods, commas, dashes and currency signs all count. So do brackets and quotation marks.
Spaces and line breaks are included. Without spaces removes all whitespace, including tabs and line breaks.
X uses weighted text and URL counts. SMS switches between GSM-7 and Unicode. Other platform counts are clearly marked estimates or guidance.
With spaces counts every keystroke including the space bar. Without spaces is the count of just letters, numbers, and punctuation. Most platforms (Twitter, SMS, meta descriptions) count with spaces — that's the headline number on this page.
The headline and custom character targets count Unicode code points, including spaces. Combined emoji may contain several. X weights emoji and Unicode and counts each detected URL as 23. SMS counts encoding units and allows 160 GSM-7 units or 70 Unicode units in one segment. Other platform checks are estimates or writing guidance; confirm in the destination composer.
We use 160 characters as writing guidance, not a hard limit. Google truncates snippets to fit the available display width and may choose a different snippet from your page.
Yes. The editor includes line breaks in the main character count and excludes them from the without-spaces total.
Your draft and target stay in this browser and are saved locally when storage is available. Text is never sent for counting. Usage analytics can record target choices and completion events, but never your text or exact custom limits.
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