Free Online Twitter Character Counter Tool

1. Type or paste your post into the text area.
2. Watch the counted total and remaining characters update live.
3. Note that each link counts as 23 and most emoji as 2.
4. Trim until the gauge stays out of the red, then copy your post.

X (formerly Twitter) caps a standard post at 280 characters, but the count isn't a naive string length. Every link is rewritten to a fixed-width t.co wrapper, so any URL — short or long — costs 23 characters. Most emoji use surrogate pairs and count as two, and many CJK characters do too. A plain textarea counter that ignores these rules will tell you a post fits when X rejects it.

This counter applies the platform's weighting: it detects URLs and charges 23 for each, counts emoji and wide characters as two, and everything else as one. A progress bar and a remaining-character readout turn amber as you approach the limit and red once you exceed it, so you can trim with confidence. For threads, paste one segment at a time — each post gets its own 280 budget.

The text never leaves your browser, which makes the tool safe for drafting posts you haven't published yet. There's no login, no autosave to a server and no tracking of what you write.