diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 17f12e4..05c6f6d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1690,6 +1690,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "toml",
  "twitter-v2",
+ "unicode-segmentation",
  "url",
 ]
 
@@ -2374,6 +2375,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tinyvec",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-segmentation"
+version = "1.10.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1dd624098567895118886609431a7c3b8f516e41d30e0643f03d94592a147e36"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
 version = "0.1.10"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0affa4f..650475f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,4 +25,5 @@ time = { version = "0.3.22", features = ["formatting", "macros"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.24.2", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "macros"] }
 toml = "0.5.9"
 twitter-v2 = { version = "0.1.8", default-features = false, features = ["oauth2", "rustls-tls"] }
+unicode-segmentation = "1.10.1"
 url = { version = "2.3.1", features = ["serde"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index d1f852f..21fe24c 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use redis::AsyncCommands;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
 use twitter_v2::{authorization::Oauth1aToken, TwitterApi};
+use unicode_segmentation::UnicodeSegmentation;
 use url::Url;
 
 const TWEET_LENGTH: usize = 280;
@@ -223,10 +224,16 @@ fn repo_uri(repo: &Repo) -> String {
 
 fn make_post_description(repo: &Repo, length_left: usize) -> String {
     let description = repo.description.replace('@', SMALL_COMMERCIAL_AT);
-    if repo.description.len() < length_left {
+    if repo.description.graphemes(true).count() < length_left {
         description
     } else {
-        format!("{} ...", description.split_at(length_left - 4).0)
+        format!(
+            "{} ...",
+            description
+                .graphemes(true)
+                .take(length_left - 4)
+                .collect::<String>()
+        )
     }
 }