Instantly count characters with and without spaces, words, lines, and sentences. Check your text against common character limits for social media and SEO.
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Sign Up FreeCharacter count is essential for anyone writing content that must fit within specific limits. Social media platforms, search engine metadata, SMS messages, and advertising platforms all impose character restrictions. Exceeding these limits can result in truncated text that fails to communicate your message effectively, reducing engagement and click-through rates. This character counter helps you stay within bounds while crafting compelling copy.
Each social media platform enforces its own character limits. Twitter/X allows 280 characters per standard post. Facebook posts can be up to 63,206 characters, but engagement drops significantly after 80 characters. Instagram captions allow 2,200 characters, with the first 125 visible before the "more" truncation. LinkedIn posts support up to 3,000 characters, while YouTube video titles are limited to 100 characters. Knowing these limits and optimizing your content for each platform is key to maximizing reach and engagement.
For search engine optimization, title tags should stay between 50 and 60 characters to avoid truncation in Google search results. Meta descriptions display up to 155-160 characters on desktop and around 120 characters on mobile. Open Graph titles for social sharing should be under 95 characters, and OG descriptions under 200 characters. SMS messages are limited to 160 characters per segment, and exceeding this splits your message into multiple parts, potentially increasing costs. This tool helps you check all these limits at a glance.