Social media writing

LinkedIn Post Character Limit

LinkedIn posts can be up to 3,000 characters. A character counter helps you draft the post, tighten the opening hook, and avoid rewriting inside the LinkedIn editor.

Paste your draft into the Character Counter. The tool counts characters with spaces, characters without spaces, words, lines, reading time, and common platform-style limits including LinkedIn posts.

How to use the 3,000 character limit

• Put the main point in the first few lines before the reader has to expand the post.
• Count after adding links, mentions, hashtags, emojis, and punctuation.
• Use short paragraphs and line breaks, but remember that line breaks still affect the final length.
• If the draft is too long, move the full version into an article and use the post as a short introduction.

Post vs article

Use a LinkedIn post for short updates, opinions, launch notes, questions, and summaries. If your draft keeps running past the post limit, consider publishing a LinkedIn article and sharing a shorter post that links to it.

Quick editing workflow

Draft freely first. Then paste the text into the counter, trim repeated phrases, and check whether the hook still makes sense on its own. If the post is part of a campaign, use the Word Frequency Counter to avoid repeating the same words across every update.

Related tools

Character Counter, Word Counter, and Social Media Character Limits.