On the bright side, it does show numbers when you’re getting close to limit.
The decision to change from character count to the unknowing orb is ridiculous. Yet another example of Twitter UI/UX teams choosing aesthetics over practicality
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Ah, it shows at 20 left. That's better than nothing. Would have preferred a lot more though - shorter messages will always be easier to consume
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I don't think it's an aesthetic decision.https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/928157219132239872 …
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I thought about this, reducing how strongly users associate tweets with character count. It's pretty underhanded - people care about character count for a reason, twitter is a content platform some people need to tightly edit
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