Bluesky character counter
Bluesky gives you 300 characters per post — and counts them the way a reader sees them. Paste your post to check it, and see how the same text fits on X and Threads.
Words: 0 · Hashtags: 0
- Bluesky 0 / 300
Counts graphemes: an emoji or an accented letter counts as one.
- Same text on other platforms
- X (Twitter) 0 / 280
Links count as 23. Emoji and most non-Latin characters count as 2.
- Threads 0 / 500
- Mastodon 0 / 500
Links count as 23. 500 is the default; some servers allow more.
- Instagram 0 / 2,200
At most 30 hashtags per caption.
- LinkedIn 0 / 3,000
- Facebook 0 / 63,206
Counting happens in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
How Bluesky counts characters
- Each post can have up to 300 graphemes.
- A grapheme is what you see as one character: an emoji, even a family or flag emoji, counts as one.
- Images and their alt text do not count toward the 300.
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What is the Bluesky character limit?
300 characters per post, counted as graphemes. For longer ideas, reply to your own post to make a thread.
Do emoji count as one character on Bluesky?
Yes. Because Bluesky counts graphemes, an emoji counts as one even when it is built from several code points.