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Paste a draft and see what a reader actually sees in the feed — and how much of it sits behind the fold. Your text stays in your browser.
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Hidden until someone taps “see more”
between what a screen says and what people believe it says is where activation goes to die.
First line
“Users thought our setup screen was mandatory. It never was.”
92 characters sit behind the fold. Everything above has to earn the tap.
The fold decides whether the rest gets read
LinkedIn gives a post 3,000 characters and shows roughly the first 140 on mobile before collapsing the rest behind a “see more” link. Everything after that point is opt-in: a reader has to decide, from one or two lines, that the remaining twenty are worth a tap.
That makes the opening the entire pitch rather than an introduction to it. A post that starts by setting up context spends its only visible lines on the least interesting part, and a post that opens on the claim earns the tap that reveals the evidence.
- Put the surprising part first. Context can wait until after the fold, because by then the reader has already chosen to keep going.
- Break the first line early. A short opening line survives both surfaces; a long one gets cut mid-thought on mobile.
- Never end the visible portion on a comma or a colon. A cut sentence reads as a formatting bug, not as suspense.
- Check mobile, not desktop. Most LinkedIn reading happens on a phone, where the fold arrives about a third sooner.
About the numbers in this tool
LinkedIn does not publish where it truncates, and the exact point moves with layout changes and font rendering. The 140 and 210 character marks used here are the widely-reported working figures, not a specification.
Treat them as an order of magnitude — roughly one short paragraph on mobile, roughly two on desktop. If a post is close enough to the line that a few characters decide it, the post is too close to the line.