Ditch Twitter's annoying new character-count circle with this Chrome extension

The only constant is change ... unless you've got a handy Chrome extension fighting the tides of time, that is. 

And thankfully for anybody who dislikes the recent changes to Twitter, "tiny-tweets" is just such an extension. 

To the consternation of many, Twitter announced on Nov. 8 that all its users would henceforth be able to tweet with 280 characters. As a further blow to all the 140 diehards out there, the company removed the number-based character count from the bottom right of the "compose new Tweet" box and replaced it with a circle.  Read more...