Useful for your tweets on Twitter, as well as a multitude of other applications, this is a free online calculator which counts the number of characters or letters in a text. Journalists writing your article, students working on your assignment, freelance writers, researchers, job seekers preparing your Resume or Curriculum Vitae: please feel free to use this tool to count the number of letters or characters in your document. It will also be useful for marketing, advertising, web design, brochure creation, thesis writing, etc.
To start, simply write or paste the text into the text areas. When you have finished, click on Count characters (count letters) under the text area, and watch the results appear immediately. You can also clear your text anytime you want by clicking on Reset. N.B. Twitter's character limit is 140.
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As an exercise, copy the following and paste it into the box above to obtain the number of letters or characters; N.B. a space or punctuation are a "character": Recommended reading: Letters from France - Mack, Isaac Alexander; Counter-Attack and Other Poems - Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967; Letters from America - Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915; A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction - Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920; Letters from Egypt - Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, 1821-1869; The Counter - Reformation - Adolphus William Ward; Character - Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 ; The education of character - Gillet, Martin Stanislas, Abp., 1875-1951; Letters to His Children - Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Counter-currents - Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950; The Art of Letters - Lynd, Robert, 1879-1949; Charms and counter-charms - McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane), 1803-1878; Revolution and counter-revolution in Germany - Friedrich Engels; Character and characteristic men - Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886; Women's wrongs: a counter-irritant - Hamilton, Gail, 1833-1896; Letters of Anton Chekhov - Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904; The counter-charm : a comedy in one act - Duffy, Bernard, b. 1882; A Woman's Love Letters - Hensley, Sophia Margaret, 1866-1913; Systems and counter-systems of education (1648-1800) - Magevney, Eugene A.; Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters - Fillmore, Myrtle; Yea and nay : a series of lectures and counter-lectures given at the London School of Economics in aid of the hospitals of London - Stelling, C. David; Democracy and character - Stephen, Reginald; William Ernest Henley A Study In The Counter-Decadence Of The Nineties - Jerome Hamilton Buckley; History of the counter-revolution - Carrel, Armand, 1800-1836; Later letters (1895-1909); - Dods, Marcus, 1834-1909; Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch - Ellis, Edward S. (Edward Sylvester), 1840-1916; Howard letters and memories - Tallack, William, 1831-1908; Letters from England - Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis, 1803-1886; Letters from High Latitudes - Dufferin, Lord, 1826-1902; Character Writings of the 17th Century - Various; The Upton Letters - Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925; Letters to Dead Authors - Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912; A Bundle of Letters - James, Henry, 1843-1916; The Elements of Character - Mary Greene Chandler Ware; Currents and counter-currents in medical science; Counter-resolutions of several states in response to those of Virginia.; counter-culture icon of the 60's and 70's; counter of the Military Air Transport Service passenger service; Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science; Short studies in character - Bryant, Sophie Willock, 1850-1922; Count Julian - Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864; Letters from the Cape - Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, 1821-1869; Letters to Dead Authors - Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912; Letters on Literature - Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912; Letters of Travel (1892-1913) - Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936; The Pawns Count - Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946; Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832; Count Alarcos; a Tragedy - Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881; Count Frontenac - Le Sueur, William D. (William Dawson), 1840-1917; English Men of Letters: Crabbe - Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904; Initial Studies in American Letters - Beers, Henry A., 1847-1926; Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes - Atwood.Slater, J