Character Counter
Room left on each platform
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What this tool does
It counts what you type the moment you type it, and then tells you the one thing a plain counter does not: whether the text still fits. A tweet, an SMS, a meta description and a LinkedIn headline all have different ceilings, so the table shows how much room is left in each at the same time.
The counts explained
- Characters — every character including spaces and line breaks. This is what most platforms count.
- Without spaces — useful for form fields and databases that measure only visible characters.
- True characters — counts an emoji or a combined letter as one, which is what a reader sees.
- Bytes — the UTF-8 size, which matters for column limits and file sizes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
On most platforms yes, and the main figure here includes them. The count without spaces is shown separately because some form fields and databases measure only the visible characters.
Many emoji are stored as a surrogate pair, which is two code units. The tool shows both the code-unit count that platforms usually enforce and the true character count, so you can see the difference.
Around 150 to 160 characters. Google measures the rendered width in pixels rather than a hard character count, so treat 155 as a target rather than a limit and put the important words first.
A plain GSM message holds 160 characters. Adding any character outside the GSM set — most emoji, and many accented letters — switches the message to Unicode, which drops the limit to 70.
No. The counting runs in JavaScript inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded, logged or saved, so confidential drafts are safe to paste here.