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About this tool
Count characters against the 280 limit, with words and tweets needed.
The Tweet Character Counter counts your text against the standard 280-character post limit and tells you how many characters are left or how many you are over, alongside the word count, line count, and how many posts the text would need if split at 280 characters each. Paste or type a draft and the numbers update as you write, so you can trim before you hit the composer. It is for anyone writing a post, a thread or an ad line where the cut-off matters more than the prose.
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Enter your tweet into the Tweet Character Counter tool to get an instant character count
Review the word count and character count to see if your tweet is within the 280-character limit
Adjust your tweet as needed to fit within the limit, using the tool to track your changes
Past 280 it reports exactly how many characters over you are, rather than just refusing to accept the text.
The post count is the character count divided by 280 and rounded up, so a long draft immediately tells you how many parts it becomes.
Line breaks matter to how a post renders, and they are counted here with the characters instead of being invisible until you paste.
280 characters for a standard post — doubled from the original 140 in 2017. Paid subscription tiers on X allow considerably longer posts, but 280 remains the limit that unpaid accounts and most scheduling tools enforce, and it is the limit counted here.
Yes, but X counts every link as a fixed length regardless of how long the URL is, because links are wrapped by its own shortener — currently 23 characters. This counter measures your raw text, so a long URL in your draft will read as more characters here than X will actually charge you.
Not always on X. Its weighted counting charges two units for characters in ranges such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and some symbols, and an emoji can consume more than one unit. This tool counts characters directly, so treat the figure as a close guide and leave a small margin when your text is emoji-heavy or not in Latin script.
Divide the character count by 280 and round up — 900 characters becomes 4 posts, which is what the tweets-needed row reports. In practice allow a little extra per post for numbering like 1/4 and for any handles you tag at the start.