Facebook Character Limits:
Like any other social media site Facebook has length requirements when it comes to writing on the wall, providing status, messaging and commenting. Understanding how many characters you can use, enables you to more effectively use Facebook as a business or campaign tool.
Private messaging via Facebook Messenger is one of the main ways that people interact on Facebook. This type of direct messaging can be either an instant message, or a regular email-type message. For both instant and regular messaging, there is a
20,000 character limit.
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Facebook status may have character limits, but considering that it is at 63,206 characters, unless you are writing
War and Peace, you should be fine. Facebook has raised this number 12 times to accommodate user’s status and feedback.
Facebook wall posts have a 63,206 character limit same with status, but
truncation begins at 477 characters. This enables someone to write a thoughtful response or create something similar to a blog.
An area which is rarely used in Facebook is the
Notes section. It is a writing area which many bloggers find useful. The reason is because
Facebook Notes does not have a character limit, as of yet. Users are directed to this area if they have very long status or comment to make. This can be used to someone's advantage if they have a longer post to make and wish to share it with their friends through tagging.
At Facebook, users upload and post new photos every day. When uploading pictures, users may need to write a description, which is less than 63,206 characters. Once uploaded, few friends will comment about the post, which should give them a character limit of 8000 characters.
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Facebook account username has a character limit of 50 characters.
When creating a
Facebook Page, there is also a character limit of 255 characters for the description or brief summary.
To summarize Facebook character limits:
- private messaging/messenger: 20,000 total characters for a single message
- status/wall posts/news feed on long posts: 63,206 characters max
- picture descriptions: less than 63,206 characters
[63,206 - the image size (e.g. 2,048 or any size) = more or less 60,000]
- photo/post comments: cannot be longer than 8,000 characters
- account username: 50 characters max
- page description or brief summary: 255 characters max
