LetterCount.com

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This is a free online calculator which counts the number of characters or letters in a text, useful for your tweets on Twitter/𝕏, as well as a multitude of other applications.

Whether it is Snapchat, Twitter/𝕏, Facebook, Yelp or just a note to co-workers or business officials, the number of actual characters matters. What you say may not be as important as how you say it. And how many characters you use.

To start counting your letters, simply write or paste the text into the text area and Count characters. Select Options: to count without spaces, punctuation or digits.

Character limits: Snapchat 1000 • Twitter/𝕏 280 • Threads 500 • Google Meet Chat 280 • LinkedIn Summary 2,600 • Reddit Title 300 • Pinterest 500 • Instagram 2,200

Write or paste your text into this online character counter:


Character limits: Facebook Status (total): 63,206 — (displayed) 400 — (most effective) 40 • HTML Title Tag (ideal) 55 • Yelp 5,000 • Ebay Title 80 • SMS txt 160

Snapchat's caption character limit is 250. Twitter's/𝕏's character limit is 280. An SMS text message limit is 160. Pinterest pins can have up to 500 characters. Instagram captions and comments can fetch 2,200 characters.

N.B : On lettercount.com, by default, a space or punctuation is a "character". One line break ( carriage return) is a "character"; consequently, a new paragraph generates two "characters". Select Options: to count letters without spaces, punctuation or numeric characters.


Twitter 𝕏 , Facebook and other Social Media

Nowadays, we need to understand the character limits on different platforms for effective communication. 𝕏 , formerly known as Twitter allows for tweets with up to 280 charactersM.

Person using a smartphone with the 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) app open, careful not to exceed the number of characters
𝕏 , formerly known as Twitter

Most tweets are typically between 180 or 190 characters. On Instagram captions can be as long as 2200 characters. Only the first 125 characters are visible at first so the beginning is key. Facebook allows posts of up to 63,206 characters yet concise meta descriptions of up to 155 characters tend to be more engaging. LinkedIn now permits posts of up to 3000 characters for professional branding. Tumblr gives you the freedom of characters while Quora limits questions to 300 characters and allows comprehensive answers. Snapchat limits captions to 250 characters. Whatsapp messages can go up to 6000 characters. Discord supports messages with a maximum of 2000 characters and Reddit titles range from 2 to 300 characters in length. Twitch.tv bios have a cap of 300 characters whereas GitHub and Stack Overflow stress on concise commit messages around the length of 72 characters or so. YouTube descriptions can go up to a maximum of around a thousand words while TikTok restricts video descriptions and bios within character counts – videos are capped at about 150 words and bios at roughly 80 words each. Various e commerce platforms such as eBay, Etsy, Amazon and Kickstarter require brief product descriptions with character limits ranging from about 80 to 250 words per description lengthwise. Adapting your content within these character constraints plays a role in shaping an effective online presence. Read about Twitter 𝕏 , Facebook and other social media character limits here




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