Twitter replaced its character counter with a circle and everyone's really confused

Twitter may have just upped its character limit to 280, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at its tweet composer.
As part of the update, which doubled the amount of characters you can cram into a single tweet, the company replaced its character counter with a weird circle icon that changes colors as you type.
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And while opinions of the new character count may be mixed, Twitter users seem to be united in their hatred for the circle, which