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See where LinkedIn cuts your post.

Paste a post and see it the way LinkedIn’s feed shows it, cut with “… more”. It runs in your browser. Your text is not sent or saved.

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Lines before the cut

LinkedIn chooses the cut for each post. Of nine feed posts we sampled, five showed 3 lines, three showed 2 and one promoted post showed 1.

How it looks in the feed

Your nameYour headline · now

LinkedIn cuts a post by lines, not by characters. We measured the feed on 9 November 2026: the text column is 526 pixels wide, each line is 20 pixels tall, and LinkedIn shows 1, 2 or 3 lines before “… more”. So a blank line after your first sentence costs you a whole line. Paste your own post to see where it gets cut.

Lines
8
Cut with “… more”
Yes
Shown before the cut
Not measured

What readers see before they click

LinkedIn cuts a post by lines, not by characters. We measured the feed on 9 November 2026: the text column is 526 pixels wide, each line is 20 pixels tall, and LinkedIn shows 1, 2 or 3 lines before “… more”.

How LinkedIn cuts a post

Our reading of LinkedIn’s desktop feed on 9 November 2026. LinkedIn changes its layout, so treat it as dated.

It cuts by lines, not characters

The feed limits the text to a set number of lines and places “… more” over the end of the last one. On desktop the text is 14 pixels on 20-pixel lines, in a column up to 526 pixels wide. We did not measure the mobile app.

One to three lines

LinkedIn sets the number for each post. Of nine feed posts we sampled, five showed 3 lines, three showed 2 and one, a promoted post, showed 1.

A blank line costs a line

Line breaks count. A one-sentence opening followed by a blank line uses two of the three lines.

Write for the cut

Three checks that hold whichever cut LinkedIn picks.

  1. Make the first line work alone

    If LinkedIn shows a single line, that line has to carry the point. Put the claim there and keep the setup for later.

  2. Give the second line a reason to keep reading

    Use it for the evidence or the stake. A blank line there spends a third of your space on nothing.

  3. Check again after every edit

    Moving one word can push a sentence onto a new line. Paste the final version before you schedule it.

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Questions about the LinkedIn cut

There is no fixed number. LinkedIn cuts by lines, so the count depends on your words and line breaks. In our test on a Mac, a paragraph with no breaks showed about 230 characters at three lines, about 150 at two and about 70 at one. The sample post on this page, which has blank lines, shows about 120.
It uses the text size, line height and column width we measured on LinkedIn’s desktop feed on 9 November 2026. LinkedIn picks 1, 2 or 3 lines for each post and can change its layout, so try each setting. Fonts also differ a little between devices.
No. We measured the desktop feed only. A phone has a narrower column, so the cut comes earlier there. A first line that works alone is safe on both.
No. The preview runs in your browser. Your text is not sent to FeedSquad.
Yes. Ghost drafts LinkedIn posts from your own material, and each draft appears in this same preview. Nothing is published until you approve it.

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