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Social Media Character Counter

Check your draft against documented platform rules, then split long posts without losing text. Everything runs locally in this tab.

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One draft, all platforms. Expand a row for fields, limits and splitting.

≈ Estimated count. Each bar shows the most-used limit. A warning appears at 90–100% usage.

How to use the social media counter

  1. Paste or type your post here…
  2. One draft, all platforms. Expand a row for fields, limits and splitting.
  3. For long posts, review the proposed parts and optionally add numbering. Copy individual parts or copy them all.
  4. For a video description, inspect the length boundary and edit your original text yourself. Check the final draft in the destination editor before publishing.

Why platform counts differ

A grapheme is a character as it is typically perceived: an accented letter or a family emoji may consist of several Unicode code points. Bytes measure encoded size instead. The same draft can therefore fit one platform and exceed another.

X applies a weighted model and transforms recognized URLs before counting. Bluesky independently checks graphemes and bytes. YouTube descriptions use bytes, while the TikTok video API specifies UTF-16 units. The source sections above describe the supported fields.

Spaces and explicit line breaks remain part of the text. Word counts use language-aware segmentation where available. URL, hashtag and mention totals are informational detections, not promises that every platform will linkify them identically. Repeated hashtags are grouped without regard to case or canonically equivalent accents.

For Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other targets marked approximate, a documented or secondary-source ceiling is used with grapheme counting. An official source does not automatically establish exact Unicode semantics. Estimated results guide editing and never claim that the platform has accepted or rejected your draft.

Practical examples and limits

Try a family emoji, a letter with a combining accent and a Chinese sentence. Compare the grapheme count with UTF-8 bytes: a short-looking description can still consume substantial space.

Paste a long URL into an X post and compare it with Bluesky. Then enable numbering in the splitter: the numbering consumes part of each post’s allowance. Paragraph and sentence boundaries are preferred when they leave a reasonably full part.

The splitter preserves every original space and line break. A link or hashtag longer than the allowance remains whole with a warning. This tool does not rewrite your message, score engagement or predict where a feed will fold text.

Also compare Russian and Chinese platforms: VK, OK, MAX, Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Xiaohongshu and Bilibili. Choose the listed field and check its source; API, promoted-post and member limits apply only to those workflows.

Privacy and accuracy

Drafts live only in page memory. They are not sent to a server, stored in browser storage, added to URLs or included in page metadata. Reloading or leaving the page loses the draft. Copying writes to your clipboard only when you request it.

Limits describe the linked fields and sources, not every account tier or publishing workflow. The X library has older emoji data, and browsers without Intl.Segmenter use an approximate Unicode fallback. Verify unusual Unicode and the final publishing result in the platform editor.

Questions about social media counting

A visible emoji may combine several code points. Platforms can measure graphemes, weighted characters, UTF-16 units or UTF-8 bytes; those units produce different totals.

No. Joining the original content of the parts exactly recovers your draft. Optional numbering and the separator inserted by Copy all are extra presentation text. Oversized indivisible tokens are flagged for manual editing.

No. The result checks documented text constraints. Account features, moderation, media, editor behavior and future rule changes can affect publishing.

No. The tool processes it in this tab and does not save or upload it. Copy actions are explicit; refreshing the page clears the draft.

Sources and last verified

Instagram

Caption

Approximate count: 2,200 graphemes

Instagram captions use Sprout Social’s publishing reference. This is an approximate grapheme count, not a verified Instagram Unicode validator; captions, bios and Stories are different fields.

Instagram · Caption: source documentation · Sprout Social

Secondary estimate · Verified 2026-09-12

Bio

Approximate count: 150 graphemes

Instagram bio length uses Hootsuite’s guide as a secondary reference. Links and other profile fields are separate. Review emoji and combining characters in Instagram before saving.

Instagram · Bio: source documentation · Hootsuite

Secondary estimate · Verified 2026-09-12

Coverage is field-specific. Estimates, API limits and account tiers are labeled; confirm the result in the destination editor. There is no universal ideal length or guaranteed reach score.

Character Counter

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