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Count a post the way X counts it. Links are 23 characters however long they are, emoji and Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters are 2, and a standard account gets 280.
Counted in this browser as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere.
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An empty post. X allows 280 characters on a standard account.
Optional. QueueBloom asks you to sign in with Google, then opens the composer with this text filled in so you can schedule it and get an email when it is due.
The counter follows X's published rules and the weights in twitter-text, the open-source library X points developers to for counting posts.
| What you type | Counts as | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Letters, digits, spaces and keyboard punctuation | 1 | Also Latin letters with accents, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Indic, Thai and Georgian letters, curly quotes and dashes. |
| Any link | 23 | X wraps every link in a t.co address, so a 15-character link and a 300-character link both count as 23. A bare domain such as queuebloom.com counts too. |
| Emoji | 2 | Including combined emoji: a family, a flag, a skin tone or a keycap still counts as one emoji. |
| Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters | 2 | So does every character above U+10FF outside a few punctuation ranges, such as Ethiopic or Khmer letters. |
| Other symbols | 2 | The ellipsis (…), bullet (•), euro sign (€) and trade mark sign (™) are 2 each. Three full stops are 3. |
| Letters typed with separate accent marks | 1 | X joins them first (Unicode NFC), so “e” plus an accent mark is one character, the same as “é”. |
Sources: X Developer Platform, Counting characters; twitter-text configuration v3 (280 limit, 23 per link, weight 1 for code points up to U+10FF and a few punctuation ranges, 2 for the rest); X Help Center, About X Premium.
280 characters for a standard X account, measured with the weights above. X Premium subscribers can write longer posts of up to 25,000 characters, according to X's help page on Premium. The counter checks the 280 limit.
A plain counter counts every character as 1. X counts a link as 23 whatever its length, and counts emoji and CJK characters as 2. A post with a long tracking link can fit on X even though a plain counter says it is over 280, and a post in Japanese can be over even though it looks short.
Hashtags and @mentions you type count like any other text. X says the @mentions it adds automatically at the start of a reply do not count, and attached photos or videos count as 0.
Yes. The QueueBloom composer and its server check use this same counting code for X, so a post that fits here fits there. QueueBloom does not post to X for you: when the post is due it emails you the copy and a link to X's own composer.