To be fair, once you hit 260 characters, it starts counting down, showing you that you have 20 characters left. I like the circle. It puts less emphasis on num

To be fair, once you hit 260 characters, it starts counting down, showing you that you have 20 characters left. I like the circle. It puts less emphasis on number of characters you are using, so perhaps people won't be as motivated to use up all 280.