Check your tweet length in real time — with URL counting, visual character indicator, and word count.
Also count characters with the Character Counter or count words with the Word Counter.
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This tweet length checker works as a Twitter character counter, X character counter, and tweet character limit tool for content creators, social media managers, journalists, and anyone who regularly posts on Twitter / X and needs to draft tweets that fit within the platform's character limit.
Twitter / X counts most characters as 1, but applies special rules to URLs and certain scripts. Regardless of actual URL length, Twitter wraps every URL through its t.co shortener and counts the result as exactly 23 characters. This means a short URL like https://example.com and a long URL like https://www.example.com/very/long/path/to/page both count as exactly 23 characters in a tweet. This tool replicates that behaviour by detecting all URLs in your text and substituting a 23-character placeholder for counting purposes — giving you an accurate count that matches what Twitter will show in its composer.
Emoji are counted as 2 characters each on Twitter / X, as are Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters. Standard Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, and spaces each count as 1. The 280-character limit applies to standard accounts. Twitter Blue / X Premium subscribers may have access to extended post lengths for longer content. The real-time visual indicator in this tool turns amber when you are within 28 characters of the limit (90% full) and red if you exceed 280, making it easy to spot when you need to trim your tweet.
Social media managers and content creators who draft tweets in advance benefit from checking length before scheduling. Tools like Hootsuite, Buffer, and Sprout Social also enforce the 280-character limit, but drafting in this checker first allows editing without the interface constraints of those platforms.