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Social Media Character Counter
Check your text against X, Instagram, TikTok, and other platform limits.
About this tool
Type or paste a post to see how many characters you've used against the limits for several platforms at once — X (Twitter), Instagram captions, Facebook posts, LinkedIn posts, TikTok captions, and SMS text messages — so you know at a glance where it fits and where it needs trimming.
Frequently asked questions
- Are these limits always accurate?
- Platforms occasionally change their limits, and some (like X) offer different limits for verified/paid accounts — these reflect commonly published standard limits, so double-check if precision matters for your account type.
- Does this count emoji and links the way platforms do?
- Emoji and most characters are counted as a single character each here. Some platforms shorten links automatically to a fixed length regardless of the actual URL length, which this counter doesn't simulate.
- Why is the SMS limit only 160?
- That's the traditional single-segment SMS limit — longer texts are typically split into multiple linked messages by carriers rather than rejected outright.