how many characters in the description meta tag?

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how many characters in the description meta tag?
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how many characters in the description meta tag?

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i have google webmasters tools and there is a section that says:

Meta description issues ................. Pages

Duplicate meta descriptions ............. 24
Long meta descriptions .................. 0
Short meta descriptions ................. 1,007

as you can see, i have alot of pages with short meta description. but i want to know how many characters is the max so i know how to code my websites so i wont get these error

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:: 1 :: Reply #68366 Reply By hostman On Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:29 pm

hostman:

160 characters

im not sure but i think its 160, try 150 just in case and monitor