LinkedIn Character Counter
Count characters and see exactly where the “…see more” cut lands.
Free, no signup, no limits
Most LinkedIn posts die in the first two lines. Not because the idea is bad, but because nobody ever sees the rest.…
…see more
The feed shows about 210 characters on mobile. Everything after that is one tap away, and most people never take it. So write the ending first, then cut everything above it that isn't earning its place.
Everything below the dashed line is hidden until someone taps “see more”.
Where LinkedIn cuts your post with "see more"
A LinkedIn post can run to 3,000 characters, but the feed shows roughly the first 210 on mobile before collapsing everything behind “…see more”. If your hook has not landed by then, the remaining 2,790 characters are never read.
LinkedIn also truncates at the third line break, so a post with short punchy lines gets cut much earlier than the character count suggests.
What this LinkedIn character counter shows
- Live character count against the 3,000-character limit
- The exact cut-off point for mobile and desktop, drawn into your text
- Line and word counts, plus an estimated reading time
- Correct counting for emojis and accented characters, which most counters get wrong
Every LinkedIn character limit
| Where | Limit |
|---|---|
| Post | 3,000 characters |
| Comment | 1,250 characters |
| Headline | 220 characters |
| About section | 2,600 characters |
| Article | 110,000 characters |
Once the length works, the post formatter handles the bold, italic and bullets LinkedIn's editor leaves out.
Counting text that is not going to LinkedIn
This page answers whether a post fits. If you want to know how long a piece of text is, without a platform limit attached, the word counter is the one for that: words, sentences, paragraphs, reading time and speaking time, plus the longest sentence in the text.
Different question, different tool. Come back here when the destination is the feed and the 3,000 character limit matters.
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