LinkedIn character counter
Count a post against LinkedIn's 3,000 and see roughly where “see more” folds it on phones and desktop, so your first lines carry the post.
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3,000 leftUTF-16LinkedIn: Counted the way code counts text: most emoji are 2, and some are more.
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- Emoji
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How LinkedIn counts a post
3,000 characters, counted the way code counts them.
LinkedIn allows 3,000 characters in a post, counted in UTF-16 units. Letters, spaces and line breaks count 1 each, most emoji 2, a flag 4 and a family emoji 11. Links count as typed; LinkedIn doesn't shorten them in the text.
Bold and italic text from “font” generators isn't formatting. It's letters borrowed from Unicode's maths alphabet, and each one counts 2, so a bold sentence uses up your limit twice as fast as plain text. Screen readers often read those letters out one by one, or skip them.
Where “see more” cuts in
LinkedIn doesn't publish it, so treat these as rough.
In the feed, LinkedIn shows the start of a post and folds the rest behind “…see more”. It's commonly put at about 140 characters on phones and 210 on desktop, and line breaks pull it earlier, since each one ends a line. The counter marks both points in your draft, so you can see what people read before they decide to tap.
| Screen | What shows before “see more” |
|---|---|
| Phone, about 140 | We spent a year rebuilding our scheduler from scratch. Here's what we got wrong, what we'd do again, and the one change that cut our support… |
| Desktop, about 210 | We spent a year rebuilding our scheduler from scratch. Here's what we got wrong, what we'd do again, and the one change that cut our support tickets in half. It started with a spreadsheet: every customer, every… |
Worked example
We're hiring 🚀 a senior designer, remote. Apply here: https://www.example.com/careers/senior-designer?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social
| Piece | What it is | Counts |
|---|---|---|
| We're hiring | Letters and spaces | 13 |
| 🚀 | An emoji, then a space | 3 |
| a senior designer, remote. Apply here: | Letters, punctuation and spaces | 39 |
| https://www.example.com/careers/senior-designer?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social | A link with tracking tags, as typed | 85 |
| LinkedIn counts | 140 of 3,000 | |
The link alone is 85 characters. LinkedIn counts every one.
When a post is over
Cut to fit keeps the longest part that fits, ending at the last full sentence, the last whole word, or exactly at the limit, and never splits an emoji or a link.
Does Shaflex keep a LinkedIn post under the limit for me?
Yes. Shaflex sizes the LinkedIn copy of your draft to LinkedIn's 3,000 as you write and posts it to your profile or your company pages, with your follow-up as the first comment. The same draft goes to your other networks too, each copy fitted to its own limit, and they're scheduled together.
See how Shaflex schedules for LinkedIn, how one draft goes to every network, and what the free plan includes.
Where these rules come from
Each one is from the network's own documentation, help pages or source code. We last checked them on .
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LinkedIn character limit questions
What's the character limit for a LinkedIn post?
3,000 characters, counted in UTF-16 units, so most emoji count 2 and long ones, like flags and families, more.
Where does LinkedIn cut a post off with “see more”?
LinkedIn doesn't say. It's commonly put at about 140 characters on phones and 210 on desktop, and earlier when you use line breaks. The counter marks both.
Do emoji count as two characters on LinkedIn?
Most do: LinkedIn counts UTF-16 units, and most emoji take 2. A flag takes 4 and a family emoji 11.
Do links count toward LinkedIn's character limit?
Yes, as typed. LinkedIn doesn't shorten links in a post's text, so a 85-character tracking link costs 85.
Does bold or italic text count more on LinkedIn?
Yes. Bold and italic “fonts” are maths letters that count 2 each, and screen readers struggle with them. Plain text reads better and leaves you more room.
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