Count a long LinkedIn post against its 3,000 character limit
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LinkedIn's help page says a post can contain up to 3,000 characters. Past that, it says you can write an article instead.
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Example text
Our team finished the onboarding update this week. New hires can now set up their accounts in a single session. Thanks to everyone who tested it and sent feedback. Next, we'll look at the reporting tools and share a plan before the end of the month.
- Characters
- 250
- Words
- 46
- Sentences
- 4
- Paragraphs
- 2
- Lines
- 3
- No whitespace
- 204
Limit: 3,000 characters
2,750 characters remaining
250 / 3,000 characters
This page answers how long a LinkedIn post can be, what LinkedIn's help says about going over, and what the help page doesn't cover. The counter below holds an example post with the limit already set. Open the full counter to draft your own post with the same limit.
How this is calculated
LinkedIn's help page on posts says, "Posts can contain up to 3,000 characters." The page gives no limit for comments, headlines, or articles, so this guide doesn't state one for them.
Past that limit, the same page says you can write an article instead, using LinkedIn's Publishing Platform. It doesn't say how long an article can be, so this guide can't tell you whether a longer draft fits there. Treat the article option as a different format, not a bigger post.
The counter's default count uses visible characters. An emoji counts as one, even a combined one like a person with a skin tone, and an accented letter counts as one. A line break counts as one too. Spaces and tabs count as well, as long as Include whitespace in character count stays on. Other tools can split a single emoji into several parts, and the emoji guide explains why.
LinkedIn's help says nothing about emoji, links, hashtags, mentions, or line breaks, so a post with many of those is where the two totals are most likely to split. Turning off Include whitespace removes spaces, tabs, and line breaks from the count, which makes the total read lower. Leave it on while you measure against the limit, since that gives the higher count when LinkedIn's rule is unknown.
Verdict
Draft in the full counter with the limit already set, since the embedded view doesn't take typing. Watch the remaining room in the Writing limit section as you edit, and use the Paragraphs and Lines cards to check the layout of your blank lines. When the post is close, paste the final text into LinkedIn and read it there before you post. Don't cut to the last character in this counter, because LinkedIn applies its own count when you post.
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