Count your tweet characters live — URLs handled correctly
Characters used
193/ 280
Remaining
87
Breakdown
Detected URLs
The Twitter character counter lets you check your tweet length in real time against the 280-character limit. Unlike a plain text counter, it applies Twitter's actual t.co URL wrapping rule — every link, no matter how long, counts as exactly 23 characters. Paste your draft, see the remaining count instantly, and catch over-limit tweets before you try to post.
Twitter automatically wraps every link through its t.co shortening service, so every URL — short or long — is replaced with a 23-character t.co link. This tool applies that same rule so your character count matches what Twitter actually records.
Yes. Every character in your tweet counts toward the 280 limit, including spaces, punctuation, and line breaks. The only exception is the automatic URL shortening described above.
Twitter will not let you post a tweet that exceeds 280 characters. The counter turns red and shows how many characters you need to remove. Twitter Blue (X Premium) subscribers can post longer content as 'articles', but standard tweets are capped at 280.
Many emojis count as 2 characters in Twitter's system because they are encoded as Unicode surrogate pairs (code points above U+FFFF). This counter uses JavaScript's string .length property, which matches how Twitter counts them.