X does not count characters one by one. Most Latin letters weigh 1, while emoji and Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters weigh 2, and every link counts as 23 however long it is. So 'Read this' plus a 60-character URL uses 33 of your 280, not 70.
A post that looks short in a notes app can still be rejected by X, because the platform weighs characters rather than simply counting them. This counter applies the same weighting the official twitter-text library uses: links count as 23 because t.co wraps them, emoji count as 2, and CJK scripts count as 2 per character. It shows the weighted total, how many characters are left against the standard 280 limit or the 25,000 limit for Premium accounts, and a breakdown of links, emoji, hashtags and mentions. One limit: X adjusts its rules from time to time, and attached media or quoted posts are not part of the count here, so treat a result within a character or two of the limit as a reason to check in the composer.
Type or paste the exact text, including links, hashtags and emoji.
Choose Standard for 280 characters or Premium for 25,000.
The weighted total and characters left update as you type; a warning appears when you go over.
The steps show how much of the total comes from links, emoji and wide characters.
Result Weighted characters: 11
Characters left: 269
Status: Fits
Visible characters: 11
Links (23 each): 0
Emoji (2 each): 0
Wide characters (2 each): 0
Hashtags: 0
Mentions: 0
Eleven Latin characters weigh one each, leaving 269 of the 280 allowed.
Result Weighted characters: 14
Characters left: 266
Status: Fits
Visible characters: 7
Links (23 each): 0
Emoji (2 each): 0
Wide characters (2 each): 7
Hashtags: 0
Mentions: 0
Each of the seven CJK characters counts twice, which is why Japanese posts hit the limit at about 140 characters.
Result Weighted characters: 33
Characters left: 247
Status: Fits
Visible characters: 51
Links (23 each): 1
Emoji (2 each): 0
Wide characters (2 each): 0
Hashtags: 0
Mentions: 0
The link counts as 23 however long it is, plus 10 for the words and space before it.
weighted = (characters weighing 1) + 2 × (wide characters + emoji) + 23 × links
weight 1weight 223The text is first normalised to Unicode NFC so accented letters typed two ways count the same. Links starting with http, https or www are replaced by a fixed 23. Each remaining grapheme is checked: an emoji, even a family or flag built from several code points, counts 2; otherwise each code point is weighed by the ranges above. The total is compared with the selected limit.
X's counting rules give every emoji a weight of 2, including combined emoji such as a family or a skin-tone variant built from several code points. The whole sequence still counts only 2.
Every link counts as 23 characters, because X wraps it with its t.co shortener. A 15-character link and a 200-character link both use 23 of your limit.
Yes. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic all fall within the first weight range (up to U+10FF), so each letter counts 1, the same as English.
Hashtags and mentions written in the body count like any other text. Usernames added automatically at the start of a reply are not counted by X, so do not paste them in if you are checking a reply.
Premium subscribers can post up to 25,000 characters. Posts over 280 are shown truncated in the timeline with a Show more link, so the first 280 still matter.
No. The counting runs in your browser, and the text is neither saved nor posted to X or anywhere else.
Using this tool in an assignment, article or report? Copy a citation, or a link for your website.
Tools Directory Editorial Team. (2026, October 16). Twitter Character Counter. Tools Directory. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://tools.milunir.com/social-media/twitter-and-reddit-tools/twitter-character-counter/
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