Counter
Count characters, lines, words and any keywords.
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Tips
- X (formerly Twitter) has a 280-character post limit, but some services count certain characters as 2 units, so be aware.
- Meta descriptions for SEO content are generally best kept at around 50–120 characters.
- Enter the keyword you want to look up in the Keyword field to count its occurrences in real time.
- Word counting is based on space separation, so word segmentation for non-Latin languages is not supported.
FAQ
Side Note — The World of Character Counts: From 140 to 4 Million
The 140-character limit in the early design of what became Twitter is said to come from the 160-character SMS limit, leaving 20 characters for the sender's name. Today's X has expanded to 280 characters, but Japanese, Chinese, and Korean characters count as 2 units, so the effective limit remains around 140 characters for those languages.
The world's longest novel is Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (7 volumes), estimated at around 1.5 million words in English translation. By some estimates, that is over 4 million characters in Japanese. By comparison, the entire text of the U.S. Constitution is roughly 7,500 words.
From an SEO perspective, Google's search result "snippet" (the description text) has a display limit of approximately 120–160 characters. The recommended length for a blog post is said to be 1,000–3,000 words, but the average length of top-ranking articles varies greatly by search query.