Twitter/X Character Counter

Type or paste your post to see a live character count against X's standard 280-character limit, with a clear warning as soon as you go over.

Select the X/Twitter tab, then type or paste your post into the box — the running count and limit appear immediately below it.

A plain single emoji like 🎉 counts as 1 character here; a flag emoji like 🇹🇷, built from two regional-indicator letters, counts as 2; and a family emoji like 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, built by joining four people with invisible zero-width joiners, counts as 7 — even though it displays as a single picture.

This tool counts Unicode code points rather than raw UTF-16 units, so most single emoji register as 1 character — closer to what you'd expect visually than a naive length count, though still not identical to X's own internal counting rules.

No — X automatically shortens any URL to a fixed-length t.co link once posted, but this counter measures the raw length of exactly what you type, not that shortened version, so a long pasted link will count as long here even though it won't cost that many characters on X itself.

This tool checks only the standard 280-character limit for free accounts, not the extended 25,000-character limit available to X Premium subscribers, and it doesn't reproduce X's exact internal weighting rules for every emoji or script.

Counting happens entirely in your browser as you type — your post is never uploaded or posted anywhere.