X (Twitter) Character Counter

An X character counter tells you how much of the 280-character limit a post uses, counted the way X counts. Ordinary counters get it wrong for posts with links or emoji, which is how a post that looks short gets rejected.

This counter applies X's published weighting rules: links count as 23, emoji as 2, Chinese, Japanese and Korean as 2, and most other characters as 1. It shows the weighted count, the characters as typed and the links found, switches between the standard and Premium limits, and turns over-length text into a numbered thread.

X weights characters. Every link counts as 23, however long or short, because X shortens it. Each emoji counts as 2, even ones built from several code points like a family or a skin tone. Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters count as 2. Latin letters, and also Hindi and other Indian scripts, count as 1.

This counter follows those rules from X's open-source twitter-text library, so its number should match the app's.