As one would expect, Microsoft Word includes a feature to count the words in a document; it also includes the ability to count the characters. Knowing the character count of a document is important ...

You can turn on a character count on your iPhone's Messages app with a setting change, so that your phone will tell you how long your SMS messages are as you type. To turn on this setting, you'll just ...

Twitter has started rolling out its new more forgiving character counting method for tweets, doing so right when the anonymous sources said it would. With this new counting method, certain things ...

Twitter may have just upped its character limit to 280, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at its tweet composer. As part of the update, which doubled the amount of characters you can cram into ...

While Excel was designed for numbers, it also involves text in cells. So, for example, if you want to transfer your data and limit the characters for each cell, you may want to know how to count ...

Whether we like it or not, we now have 280 characters to play with on Twitter – but their generosity doesn't just stop there. Because the social network has also introduced a longer character count ...

Getting your message across in a clear and concise manner always helps keep your social media audience interested, but becomes essential on Twitter. When you only have 140 characters in which to fit ...

Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that some people on the social media site can’t get too long winded, and ...

Twitter has made a subtle, but not insignificant change to the way it counts emoji in its 280-character limit. Moving forward, all of its natively supported emoji will count as two characters.

Twitter announced today on its developer forum that all emojis will count evenly toward the platform's maximum 280 character limit. Before this update, various modifiers such as gender and skin tone ...