This online calculator counts the number of words and characters or letters in the text typed or pasted into the text area of our word count tool. Character count includes line breaks, punctuation marks and white spaces.
Count words in text
Our online word and character counter is a great tool for anyone who needs to keep a count of their words and characters. It’s important for authors writing articles or for webmasters trying to keep up with SEO best practices. It’s also important for all social media users because of some character limits and length requirements imposed by the companies. Understanding how many characters you can use helps you to more effectively use social media as a business tool.
Here are some limitations in use and best practices for various applications.
• Facebook post can be up to 63,206 characters long. But the general census is that an ideal Facebook post should be somewhere between 40 and 50 characters.
• Twitter’s post limit now is 280 characters for all Tweets. There are indications that tweets between 71 and 100 characters get the most engagement. Note that Twitter direct messages can be up to 10,000 characters long.
• Instagram captions can now be up to 2,200 characters long and can contain up to 30 hashtags. Instagram recommends to keep your captions under 125 characters.
• LinkedIn statuses can be up to 700 characters long company page posts, and 1,300 characters for statuses on individual accounts. Best practice is to keep posts under 140 characters for both personal and company posts.
Some other character limits: Snapchat – 250 characters, Reddit Title – 300 characters, Pinterest – 500 characters. An SMS text message limit is 160 characters.
This word count tool can be also a handy way to assess your words per minute typing rate.
Related tools
Check out our other text tools such as Word Frequency Counter or Text Case Converter.