Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Twitter/X character limit?
Twitter/X limits posts to 280 characters. URLs always count as 23 characters regardless of length. Images, videos, and polls don't count toward the character limit. Twitter Premium (X Premium) subscribers can post up to 25,000 characters.
What is the Instagram caption limit?
Instagram captions support up to 2,200 characters, but only the first 125 characters show before the 'more' cutoff. Hashtags count toward the character limit. Instagram allows up to 30 hashtags per post.
How many characters is an SMS?
A standard SMS is 160 characters (GSM-7 encoding). Using Unicode characters (emojis, accented letters) reduces this to 70 characters per segment. Longer messages are split into multiple SMS segments — 153 GSM or 67 Unicode characters per additional segment.