Preview Your LinkedIn Post Before You Publish
See your post as a real feed card, with the "…more" link exactly where LinkedIn puts it, on desktop and mobile. Fix the first lines before the feed judges them.
Quick answer: LinkedIn shows roughly the first 210 characters (or 3 lines) of a post on desktop and about 140 characters in the mobile app before the see more cutoff. Paste your draft below to see exactly where yours gets cut.
The feed shows roughly the first 210 characters on desktop and 140 in the mobile app (3 lines max, blank lines count). Click "…more" in the preview to expand it, exactly like the real feed.
Updated August 2026
Where LinkedIn Cuts Your Post
The cutoff is layout-based, not a fixed character count: the feed clamps a post to about 3 lines of its column, which works out to different budgets per device. Both budgets apply at once, whichever runs out first wins, and blank lines count as full lines.
| Where | Visible before "…more" | Line cap |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop feed | ~210 characters | 3 lines, blank lines count |
| Mobile app | ~140 characters | 3 lines, blank lines count |
| Full post limit | 3,000 characters | Expands after the click |
Everything after the cutoff is only read by people who click, and LinkedIn watches whether they do: the click and the dwell time it produces feed the post's distribution. That is why the first lines matter more than any other part of the post. The numbers, and what to do with them, are covered in depth in our see more cutoff guide, and the LinkedIn character counter tracks every limit as you type.
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