Character Counter (with Social Media Limits)
Count characters with and without spaces, and check your text against X (Twitter), Instagram, SMS and meta description limits.
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How to use
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Type or paste your text into the box.
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See characters with and without spaces, words, lines and bytes instantly.
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Check the limit bars to see how much room is left for an X post, Instagram caption, SMS or meta description.
Questions
What are the common character limits?
X (Twitter) posts: 280 characters for standard accounts. Instagram captions: 2,200 characters (bio: 150). LinkedIn posts: 3,000. YouTube titles: 100. A single SMS: 160 plain characters, or 70 if it contains Tamil, Hindi, emoji or other Unicode characters. Google usually shows about 150–160 characters of a meta description and about 60 of a page title.
Why does my Tamil SMS split so quickly?
SMS uses the 7-bit GSM alphabet for plain English (160 characters per message). Any character outside it — Tamil or Hindi letters, emoji, curly quotes — switches the whole message to Unicode, which allows only 70 characters. Long messages are split into parts of 153 (GSM) or 67 (Unicode) characters.
Why do my counts differ from X’s counter?
X counts every link as 23 characters, and counts emoji and Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters as 2. This tool shows the plain count; the X bar applies the emoji and link rules as an estimate.
About this Character Counter tool
Character Counter (with Social Media Limits) — Count characters with and without spaces, and check your text against X (Twitter), Instagram, SMS and meta description limits. It is one of 200 free tools on namasivayam.in, made by software engineer Namasivayam Vadivelan for everyday use in India.
Everything is calculated instantly in your browser: nothing you type or upload is sent to any server, there is no sign-up, and it works on mobile and desktop. Type or paste your text into the box.
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