LinkedIn post preview

Most people read three lines of your post and then decide. This shows you those three lines the way the feed will render them, on desktop, tablet, and phone, with the cut measured on your own words rather than guessed at a round number.

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Atta Ur Rehman Shah

Co-Founder @ Depost AI — Your AI content team for LinkedIn

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The cut is measured by laying your text out at the feed's real width, not by counting to a fixed number of characters. Three short lines get truncated sooner than one long one.

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Why the cut moves

Nearly every guide puts the "see more" cut at a fixed number of characters, usually around 210 on desktop and 140 on mobile. Those numbers come from measuring one paragraph once. The feed does not count characters, it fills lines, and it collapses the post once the text runs past about three of them.

The difference is large enough to matter. Open with a three word line, a blank line, and a question, and the preview is spent before you have said anything. Open with one continuous sentence and you can carry a complete thought into the fold. Same character count, very different amount of read.

So the useful question is not how many characters you have. It is whether the words above the fold give a reader a reason to open the rest, and whether they still do it on a narrow phone column, which is where most of your audience is.

What to check before you publish

  • Switch to the phone. If the preview works there it works everywhere, and the reverse is not true.
  • Read only the visible part and ask whether it stands on its own. A hook that depends on the hidden half is not a hook.
  • Check that your first link is not sitting above the cut, where it competes with reading the post.
  • Count your line breaks. Spacing that looks generous in a text editor eats the preview in the feed.

More on what the opening has to do in our definition of a hook, and on why the time people spend reading matters in dwell time.

Questions

Where does LinkedIn cut a post with "see more"?
After roughly three lines of rendered text. Because it is a line count, the character position moves with your line breaks: a post that opens with two short lines loses the preview to about a dozen words, while a single running sentence keeps far more. This tool measures the cut on your own text rather than assuming a fixed number.
Is the preview exact?
It is measured, not estimated. Your text is laid out at the width the feed uses and the cut is found by measuring where the fourth line would begin. LinkedIn does adjust its layout from time to time, and a reader on an unusual font size will see a slightly different break, so treat it as accurate rather than pixel perfect.
Why does the same post look different on a phone?
The column is narrower, so the same three lines hold fewer words. On the same paragraph the cut moves from around 242 characters on desktop to 212 on a tablet and 141 on a phone. Most LinkedIn reading happens on a phone, which makes that the view worth writing for. Switch between all three with the icons above the card.
Can I preview a post with an image or a document?
Not yet. This previews the text, which is the part that decides whether anyone expands the post in the first place. Media attaches below the text and does not change where the cut falls.
Does my draft get uploaded anywhere?
No. Every count and every measurement happens in your browser. The draft is kept in your own browser storage so it survives a refresh, and it is never sent to us. Clearing it with Reset removes it. A Share link is the one deliberate exception: the draft travels inside the link itself, readable by the people you choose to send it to and still stored nowhere on our side.
Does formatted text survive the LinkedIn composer?
Bold and italic do, because they are made from separate Unicode characters rather than markup, which is what the formatter tool produces. Ordinary rich text pasted from a document does not: LinkedIn strips it on paste.

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