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Twitter / X Character Counter

Paste your draft and see the count X will actually apply, not the raw character count. If you're over the limit, the thread is written for you underneath.

147 / 280
133 left
Premium limit: 147 / 25,000
Raw characters
141
Words
22
Lines
1
Links
1

Your link counts as 23 characters whatever the real length, because X rewrites every link to a t.co.

Why most character counters give you the wrong number

They count the characters in the box. X does not. It rewrites every link, however long, into a t.co of exactly 23 characters, so a draft with three long URLs is far shorter than it looks. And it charges two characters for anything outside the Latin ranges, so emoji, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Cyrillic all cost double.

The result is that a naive counter is wrong in both directions at once. It will tell you a link-heavy draft is over the limit when it fits comfortably, and tell you a Japanese draft fits when X will reject it. This one applies the weights X publishes, so the number matches what you will see in the composer.

The limits, and which one applies to you

280 characters is the standard limit and the one that matters, because it is what unverified accounts get and what every reader sees in a timeline before the More link. Premium subscribers can post up to 25,000, but a post over 280 is collapsed behind a fold in the feed, so the practical limit for anything you want read is still 280.

Direct messages are a different budget entirely at 10,000 characters, and bios are capped at 160, which is the constraint most people actually run into.

What to do when you're over

Cutting is almost always better than threading. The first sentence is doing the work, and most drafts have a warm-up paragraph before it that can go entirely. Read your draft starting from the second sentence and see whether you miss the first.

When the content genuinely needs the room, this page splits it for you at word boundaries and numbers each part, leaving space for the counter so no part comes out over the limit once numbered. Post the first part, then reply to yourself with the rest.

Counting characters is the easy part

Fitting inside 280 does not make a post worth writing, and the hardest part of X is not the composer. It is knowing who to be talking to in the first place.

SquidX handles that half: it watches X for people describing the problem your product solves, scores them against your ideal customer profile, and hands you a ranked list of conversations worth joining. You write the reply. It finds you the reply worth writing.

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