How many characters can a comment to a post have on Facebook? Note that I'm not referring to a status update or a root post in a group but to the comments.
Facebook – Maximum Size of a Comment on a Post
Related Solutions
- Go to
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GROUPNAME/edit/or click on the wrench button in the top right of your group's page & then click onEdit Group - In the section
Posting Permissions(the last one), selectOnly administrators can post to the group. - Click
Save
According to this article, 420 characters, but I can't test it for the moment, since I don't have access to Facebook from my current network.
I have just tested it and the latest iteration (late August 2011) allows for Status updates of up to 500 characters.
UPDATE (10/11/2011):
Facebook increased the status updates character number to 5.000. See screenshot below.
UPDATE (30/11/2011)
Facebook just increased the status updates character limit to 60.000.
In September, we increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, we're announcing that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters.
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Best Answer
Great question, though there doesn't appear to be any definitive answer. I think @1kenthomas 's answer is better than the accepted one, as there was (presumably) an attempt to obtain empirical evidence.
So, I've done a series of manual tests as of a few minutes ago, and the result was exactly 7,897 characters was the limit. Even one character more causes Facebook to reject it.