This is the 5th ‘edition’ of my list and I’ve included the latest cut-offs and image sizes too. But, that doesn’t mean that your words don’t matter, too.

Read more *LinkedIn says “You can add up to 50 co-authors to a publication.”Profile Status Update: 1300 (Only about 200 characters are readable before the reader needs to click to Sending an Invite to Connect (AKA: “Add a Note” / Include a personal message): 300 (Update: Some people are saying their limit is 140 as of 9-12-19.

Keep them coming!Yes, it can be frustrating Jenny. If you learned something of value - buy me a coffee :)

thanksI’ve heard that it is either 50 or 75 per day – though why you’d want to do that is beyond me.

I’ve got some theories, none of them proven Thanks Andy. I work from a Word document and use the Word Count function (with fury) to bring the character count to where it needs to be and then move the content over to LinkedIn. But do your own thang, I guess. If you see something inaccurate, let me know and I’ll update it. It said my summary went over the max character limits, but I was not over 2000 – any ideas on this?Try doing it in a different web browser, keep deleting until you can ‘save’. However, it’s been reported that posts over 120,000 characters will get cut off by LinkedIn’s blogging network. Make of this what you will.Ditto what Andy said. LinkedIn isn’t (or shouldn’t be) a numbers game.

Check out these 4 stunningly good (real life) summary examples: Professionals hire me because they wish they could write like me and they trust in my ability to fix their LinkedIn problems.I’m currently accepting new clients (36 characters, 5 words).Did the invitation character limit change for anyone else?

This is not a difference between Premium and free. Great to see you chime in. Appreciate your making LinkedIn Life easier!This will be of great help once my website is ready for public consumption AND I create intelligent and pithy written content!Andy: Thank you for letting the community know what the limits are for all fields. When sending a private message or InMail on Linkedin your text limit is 2000 characters max.

contact LinkedIn customer service and ask them why.Andy one must remember that empty spaces between words count as characters.

Surprisingly, some of the posts that were NOT breaking off had more characters than the posts where the words were being cut off.

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Jan 29 2019 | Best Practices. Sharing on Twitter and FB too!What a great resource!

In 2017, Twitter doubled its character limit to help make writing on the platform easier. Just my two cents.Andy perhaps a distinction is being made. Saves time, effort and ‘over the character count’ frustration.Headline: 120 character limit (try editing on mobile app for extra characters! If one looks closely at the MS word count box there is a line for word count and a totally separate line for character count without spaces and one including spaces. LinkedIn Advertising [bctt tweet=”Direct Sponsored Content has a text limit of 160 characters max.”] There are three types of DIY LinkedIn advertising: Text Ads, Sponsored Content or Direct Sponsored Content. I was typing in my profile and suddenly it shut down.

I suspect that since LinkedIn is a MS product now they have decided to include spaces in the CHARACTER count. Saves time, effort and ‘over the character count’ frustration.Me too, Carla – also saves the high anxiety that can happen when you’ve typed carefully into the section, clicked on Save, and something goes ka-blooey!

Thanks!Please bookmark and share, not necessarily in that order Banner/Hero image:1584 x 396 pixels (4:1 proportion)Post cut-off: 210 characters or less (before clicking ‘See more’)Following: you can follow an unlimited number of membersA really useful tool which will count your characters for you: Struggling to write that LinkedIn summary? How do I recover what I already typed?” Answer: You’re sunk. Examples of Cut Off LinkedIn Posts . If you come up with any thoughts on what’s behind the unexplained volatility in # profile views, I’d love to know.Thanks Mark. Feel free to like, comment and/or share if you found this valuable.