Counts update live and work in any language. Spaced languages like Spanish, French and Korean count words by spaces; for Chinese and Japanese, characters without spaces is the standard word measure.
A natural target is 0.5% to 1.5%. Above 2.5% starts to read as keyword stuffing.
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This tool counts characters, characters without spaces, words, sentences, paragraphs and reading time the moment you type or paste, and it works in any language. Spanish, French, Korean and every other spaced language is counted by whitespace, exactly the way Google Docs and Word count words. For Chinese and Japanese, which do not use spaces, the characters-without-spaces figure is the standard word measure, and the tool flags this automatically when it detects CJK text. The limit bars below the counts show how much room you have left on each major platform, turning red the instant you go over.
These are the limits the tool tracks live. The Google rows are display limits rather than hard caps: you can write longer, but searchers will not see it.
| Platform | Limit | If you exceed it |
|---|---|---|
| X / Twitter post | 280 characters | The post button is disabled for standard accounts; longer posts require a Premium subscription. |
| Instagram caption | 2,200 characters | Instagram blocks the post; feeds also collapse captions after roughly 125 characters behind a "more" link. |
| LinkedIn post | 3,000 characters | LinkedIn will not publish the post, and readers see a "see more" fold long before the cap. |
| YouTube title | 100 characters | The title field simply stops accepting input. |
| Google title tag | About 60 characters displayed | Google truncates the title with an ellipsis or rewrites it entirely in search results. |
| Google meta description | About 155 characters displayed | Google cuts the snippet mid-sentence, hiding your call to action. |
Your title tag and meta description are your ad in the search results. When a title runs past the roughly 60 characters Google displays, the end gets cut off, and if the keyword or the persuasive part lived there, you lose clicks to the result below you. Google has also documented that it rewrites titles it considers too long or poorly matched to the query, which means a carefully written headline can be replaced by an automated one. Keeping titles near 60 characters and descriptions near 155 keeps you in control of what searchers actually read.
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