About Social Media Character Counter
A word counter is a tool that reports how many words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs a text contains. Here a word is a run of letters or digits, with inner apostrophes and hyphens kept together, so "well-known" counts once. Characters are counted as Unicode code points, sentences by end punctuation, and paragraphs by blank lines. Reading time assumes 200 words per minute, with a minimum of one minute.
How to use Social Media Character Counter
- Type or paste into the "Input text" box, or press "Use example" to try it with sample data.
- The result appears below and updates as you type.
- Copy the result with the copy button, or download it as a file where that is offered.
Questions about Social Media Character Counter
Do spaces count as characters?
Both figures are shown. "Characters (with spaces)" includes spaces, tabs, and line breaks, and "Characters (no spaces)" excludes all whitespace. Most essay and form limits use the count with spaces unless they state otherwise.
How is reading time calculated?
The word count is divided by 200 words per minute, a common estimate for adult silent reading, and rounded to the nearest minute. Short texts always show at least 1 minute.
Why does X accept fewer characters than the counter shows as remaining?
X weighs some characters differently: every link counts as 23 characters, and most emoji and CJK characters count as two. This counter treats each Unicode character as one, so use the remaining figure as an estimate.
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