Why Count Characters?
Knowing the character count of your text is essential for many writing tasks. Social media platforms, search engines, and messaging apps all impose character limits. Our tool gives you an instant breakdown of characters, words, sentences, and lines.
Common Character Limits
- Twitter/X post — 280 characters
- Instagram caption — 2,200 characters
- Meta title (SEO) — 50–60 characters recommended
- Meta description (SEO) — 150–160 characters recommended
- LinkedIn post — 3,000 characters
- YouTube title — 100 characters (70 visible)
- SMS message — 160 characters (single segment)
- Google Ads headline — 30 characters per headline
- Google Ads description — 90 characters per description
SEO Tip: Keep your page titles under 60 characters and meta descriptions under 160 characters to ensure they display fully in Google search results without being truncated.
What We Count
- Characters — Total number of characters including spaces, punctuation, and special characters.
- Characters (no spaces) — Character count excluding all whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines).
- Words — Number of words, defined as sequences of non-whitespace characters separated by whitespace.
- Sentences — Number of sentences, detected by counting sentence-ending punctuation marks (
.!?). - Lines — Number of lines, counted by line breaks in the text.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do spaces count as characters?
Yes, spaces are characters. Our tool shows both the total character count (including spaces) and the count without spaces, so you can use whichever metric your platform requires.
How are words counted?
Words are counted as sequences of non-whitespace characters separated by spaces, tabs, or newlines. Hyphenated words (like “well-known”) count as a single word. Numbers and special characters surrounded by spaces also count as words.