How X counts characters
X’s counting rules give a post 280 weighted characters:
- 1 each: Latin letters, numbers, common punctuation and most accented letters.
- 2 each: emojis, including skin tones and joined emojis like 👨👩👧👦, plus Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters and symbols such as … and →.
- 23 each: links, whatever their length.
X counts text after Unicode normalization, so an accented letter typed as two code points still counts once. This counter follows the weights in X’s open-source twitter-text library, and we checked it against that library on thousands of sample posts.
Turn long text into a thread
Tick Split into a thread and the text is cut between words into posts that each fit, with 1/3-style numbers if you want them. To save a posted thread as Markdown, see the Twitter thread API guide. To plan a search for posts like yours, try the X advanced search builder.