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One input, every official 2026 LinkedIn limit and see-more fold — posts (3,000), comments (1,250), headlines (220), About (2,600), and the 210/140-character folds — counted the way LinkedIn counts them. Free, no signup.
The full body of a standard LinkedIn post.
Comments on any post — including your own (first comment).
The line under your name — on every post, comment, and search result.
Your profile summary.
Roughly the first ~210 characters show before “see more” on desktop.
Mobile cuts earlier — ~140 is the commonly observed approximation; it varies by device.
Fold rows are guidance, not hard limits — crossing them hides everything after the fold behind “see more”. The other rows are the hard ceilings LinkedIn enforces in its composer.
A counter keeps a post publishable. HooklyAI scores it 1–100 across seven published dimensions, with hard quality gates no other tool enforces.
Toggle between a typical draft and its strengthened edit. Every number below is computed in your browser by the same deterministic scorer the analyzer uses — not a screenshot, not a stock graphic.
What the feed shows before …see more (210 chars)
I am happy to share some exciting news about my professional journey. In today's world, networking is very important for everyone, and I have learned a lot during my time working on various projects. I want to tell you all about my experience with professional development and the growth opportunities that I have encountered along the way. Hard work always pays off, and I am grateful for everything I have learned from my team and my managers over the past few years.…see more
Live output from the same deterministic scorer that powers the analyzer — not a screenshot.
Six published dimensions, hard quality gates, methodology in the open. How scoring works
LinkedIn enforces four hard ceilings, checked October 2026. The post body allows 3,000 characters — generous enough that almost nobody hits it, which is exactly why it is the least useful number on this page. Comments allow 1,250, which shapes how much substance a comment can carry — relevant if you use the first-comment strategy of moving links and hashtags out of the post body. The headline allows 220, and the About section allows 2,600.
The numbers that actually decide reach are the soft ones: the see-more folds. On desktop the feed shows roughly the first 210 characters of a post — about three lines — before collapsing the rest. Mobile cuts earlier, around 140, though the exact cutoff varies by device and LinkedIn has never published a firm number, so treat both as approximations and treat 140 as the safe planning target. These are not limits you can “exceed” — they are limits you exceed by default, and the penalty is invisibility rather than a red error message.
Two profiles matter differently. For recruiters and buyers searching LinkedIn, your headline and name are matched as plain text — which is also why styled Unicode characters in identity fields are costly regardless of their count. For the About section, the first ~265 characters appear before a “see more” on your profile — a fourth fold the counter above does not pretend to model, but one worth respecting: put the searchable, follow-worthy summary up front.
Most counters report JavaScript's built-in .length — and get styled text and emoji wrong. Those characters live on Unicode's astral plane, where each one occupies two internal code units. Paste a 100-character bold line (the kind our text formatter produces) into a naive counter and it will insist you wrote 200 characters. Paste an emoji and it counts two. The counts drift exactly where modern posts are densest.
Every count on this page is code-point accurate: one visible character, one count — emoji, styled letters, accented characters, CJK, all counted the way LinkedIn and other modern platforms count them. If your text already contains styled characters, the counter says so, and one click clears them back to plain text so the numbers describe what a search engine or screen reader actually sees.
Treat the first 210 characters as the most expensive space you publish in, because that is what they are: the preview every scroll-past happens against. The mechanic is identical to the one our scorer teaches — the hook earns the expand, and the expand earns the read — which is why the counter, the post preview tool, and the scorer all share the same fold logic instead of three different approximations.
The practical habit: draft, count, and if the fold row shows your key line is hidden, that is not a formatting problem — it is a writing problem. Move the promise up. Cut the throat-clearing first sentence. The counter tells you where the feed stops reading; only scoring can tell you whether what comes before it deserves the attention.
From paste to certainty in under ten seconds — no account, no waiting.
A post, a comment, a headline candidate, or an About draft — the same input is checked against every limit at once, so you can see which ceiling matters for what you are writing.
Post (3,000), comment (1,250), headline (220), and About (2,600) are hard ceilings enforced by LinkedIn’s composer. Each row turns amber as you approach and red the moment you cross — with the exact overflow count.
The fold rows show how much of your text survives into the feed before “see more” — roughly 210 characters on desktop and 140 on mobile. A post can be well under 3,000 and still hide its best line behind the fold.
Under the limit but past the fold? Tighten the hook. Over a hard limit? Trim or split. Then paste the corrected text back into LinkedIn — or into the preview tool to see the final truncation before you publish.
The 2026 numbers, the folds, and the counting subtlety other counters get wrong.
HooklyAI scores every post 1–100 across seven calibrated dimensions before you publish — with hard quality gates and the methodology in the open. Free tier: 30 scored generation requests a month.
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