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When I first heard the rumor that Twitter was changing their character count, I was sure it would never happen. I know Twitter has had some struggles, but changing the one thing that makes them unique just seemed foolish. I was sure it wouldn’t happen.
Then during AASL, I started noticing paragraph-long tweets in my feed. I realized that the familiar character count that told me the number of characters I had left was replaced with a circle graphic giving a visual representation of how much was left (out of 280 characters). Twitter took the power out of our hands and replaced it with a silly graphic. Even if I still want to only write 140 characters, I now have to estimate.
