Character Counter

Twitter/X has a 280 character limit for standard tweets. Twitter Blue/Premium subscribers can post up to 4,000 characters. The limit was expanded from 140 to 280 characters in November 2017.

Instagram captions can have up to 2,200 characters. However, captions are truncated after about 125 characters in the feed, so put your most important information at the beginning. Instagram bio has a 150 character limit.

Standard SMS messages have a 160 character limit when using GSM-7 encoding (basic Latin characters). If you use special characters, emojis, or non-Latin scripts (Unicode/UCS-2), the limit drops to 70 characters per message segment. Longer messages are split into multiple segments.

Meta descriptions should be 150-160 characters for optimal display in Google search results. Google truncates descriptions longer than 155-160 characters with an ellipsis. Write concise, compelling descriptions that include your target keyword.

Yes, spaces count as characters in most platforms and character limits. A space is considered a whitespace character. Some character counters let you toggle whether to include spaces in the count.

Title tags should be 50-60 characters for optimal display in search results. Google typically displays the first 50-60 characters of a title. Make sure your primary keyword appears early in the title.

LinkedIn posts have a 3,000 character limit. LinkedIn articles can be up to 125,000 characters. For maximum engagement, posts between 1,900-2,000 characters tend to perform best.

Reading time is calculated by dividing the word count by average reading speed (typically 200-250 words per minute). For example, a 1,000-word article takes about 4-5 minutes to read at average speed.