Count Bookmarklet

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Count is a bookmarklet for counting characters (and words and lines) on a web page. Simply select some text on the page, click the bookmarklet and watch the count.

Why whould I want to use Count?
Many services such as Twitter limit their input to 140 characters. When using one of the twitter front-ends there's a built-in counter to help you count characters but sometimes you want to send twits, or simply count characters when not in twitter. This bookmarlet will do that for you. For example, when sending DM (direct messages) in Topify.

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Tom

Very nice interface! Simple and clean.

subrosa

this is way cooler than it sounds. you watch it counting, sort of like a digital scale. it keeps counting AS you make selections repeatedly on the same page - and it works in text fields too!

Josh Carpenter

Love it but for one problem, it only pops up at the the top of the page. If I'm selecting anything below the fold I have to scroll up to see the results. Wish the position was dynamic relative to the screen, or better yet, the selection itself. (This is on my iPad, so not sure if same thing happens on a non-mobile.)