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Mastodon Counter
Draft a toot. Live 500-character count with color feedback.
- 500 chars
- Live
- Private
- Free
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500 left
What counts toward the 500
Body text, mentions, hashtags, emoji. Mastodon fixes every URL at 23 characters regardless of length (same rule as Twitter’s t.co). Content warnings are a separate 100-character field.
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Meta-owned. Longer than a tweet, shorter than a LinkedIn post.