🔢 Character Counter
Type or paste your text to see the character count update live — with and without spaces — and check it against the tweet, meta description, SMS, and SEO title limits so nothing gets cut off.
🔢 Count Your Characters
🔢 Character Count
| Limit | Max | Remaining | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tweet (X) | 280 | 280 | Within limit |
| Meta description | 160 | 160 | Within limit |
| SMS | 160 | 160 | Within limit |
| SEO title | 60 | 60 | Within limit |
Limits are the common platform maximums — a 280-character tweet, a 160-character meta description or SMS, and a 60-character SEO title. Staying within them keeps your text from being truncated.
What is a Character Counter?
A character counter measures the exact length of your text and compares it against the maximums imposed by the places you publish. Whether you're fitting a headline into an SEO title, a caption into a tweet, or an alert into a single SMS, it shows how many characters you have left and flags the moment you go over.
Because it recalculates instantly as you type, you can tighten a sentence and watch the remaining count climb back into the green — no guesswork, no truncated messages. It all runs locally in your browser, so your drafts stay private.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Why do character limits matter?
Many platforms silently truncate text that runs long. A tweet caps at 280 characters, an SMS segment at 160, a Google meta description at roughly 160, and an SEO page title at about 60 before it's cut off in search results. Staying under the limit means your whole message is seen exactly as you wrote it.
Do spaces count towards the limit?
Yes — on nearly every platform a space is a character just like a letter. That's why this tool shows characters including spaces as the primary figure, and offers a separate no-spaces count for the rare case where you need it, such as certain form fields or word-density checks.
How is the SMS limit calculated?
A single standard SMS holds 160 characters using the GSM alphabet. Longer messages are split into segments and stitched back together on the recipient's phone. Note that emoji and some special characters switch the message to a 70-character-per-segment encoding, so keep messages plain to fit more in.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The counter runs entirely in your browser and updates as you type, so nothing you paste is sent to a server. It's safe for confidential copy, unpublished announcements, and personal messages.