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The Twitter Character Limit on X, Counted Properly
The Twitter character limit is 280 for most accounts, but URLs, emoji and non-Latin scripts are not counted one-for-one. Here is how the weighting works.
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The Twitter character limit is 280 for most accounts, but URLs, emoji and non-Latin scripts are not counted one-for-one. Here is how the weighting works.

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