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Optimize your post for Twitter/X's 280-character limit. Perfect for quick updates and engaging content.
Craft engaging Instagram captions up to 2,200 characters. Great for storytelling and building community.
Share longer-form content on Facebook. Ideal for detailed updates, articles, and community discussions.
Professional networking posts up to 3,000 characters. Perfect for thought leadership and industry insights.
Digits 0-9
mathematical operators, currency symbols, brackets, and other non-punctuation symbols like @, #, $, %, &, etc.
Emojis and special characters
A, E, I, O, U (and Y)
All other letters
Total character count includes everything: letters, numbers, punctuation, spaces, tabs, and line breaks. Character count without spaces excludes all whitespace, showing only visible content like letters, numbers, and symbols.
Our tool shows remaining characters for major platforms: Twitter/X (280), Instagram captions (2,200), Facebook posts (63,206), and LinkedIn posts (3,000). It automatically updates as you type to show how much space you have left.
Punctuation includes standard marks like periods, commas, question marks, and quotation marks. Special characters include mathematical operators (+, -, Γ), currency symbols ($, β¬, Β£), brackets, and technical symbols like @, #, %, &.
Average word length divides the total non-whitespace characters by the number of words. This character density metric helps analyze text complexity and readability - shorter averages indicate simpler text.
Emojis count as special characters and may use multiple Unicode code points. Our tool accurately handles all Unicode characters including accented letters, foreign scripts, and complex emojis across different languages and writing systems.
Y is counted as a vowel when it makes a vowel sound (like in "gym," "my," or "happy") and as a consonant when it makes a consonant sound (like in "yes" or "beyond"). Our tool follows standard English linguistic rules.
ASCII characters include basic English letters, numbers, and common symbols (codes 0-127). Non-ASCII characters include accented letters (Γ©, Γ±), foreign alphabets (δΈζ, Ψ§ΩΨΉΨ±Ψ¨ΩΨ©), emojis, and extended Unicode symbols.
Yes! Our character counter works with all languages and writing systems including English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, and more. It properly handles Unicode characters, right-to-left text, and complex scripts.
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