Understanding meta tags and how they relate to search-engine results pages (SERPs) is one of the most fundamental concepts of SEO. This article below is a great overview of what each meta tag is and where it displays within a SERP.
To summarize the recommended length of the two most important meta tags -- title and description -- the meta title is about half a tweet (70 characters) and the meta description is about the length of one tweet (140 characters). Any longer and you're potentially throwing valuable keywords out the window.
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