How to use an online character counter and word counter tool
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Textool is very easy to use. Just start typing your text in the input above, it will automatically show you the number of lines, the number of lines that aren't empty, the number of characters, the number of characters that are not the space character.
Sample number of characters you should be familiar with:
- Twitter - Up to 280 characters (Previously, it was 140 characters).
- Facebook - A maximum of 63,206 characters for posts, which is a lot, and a maximum of 8,000 characters for comments which is also a lot.
- Instagram - Limited to 30 hashtags and 2,200 characters when writing a caption. Note that only the 125 characters will be displayed, and the rest will be truncated.
- LinkedIn - Headline text has a limit of 120 characters, your summary section has a limit of 2,000 characters, position title has a limit of 100 characters and your description box, a limit of 1,000 characters.