In fairness Farage stuck to the high road and didn't go for a counter-character assassination, facing a pincer attack from Brand and the audience, members of whom sporadically shouted and booed him during the debate.
If you do not see a character counter appear next to the Send button when you start tapping out a new message, go to the Home screen and tap the Settings icon.
But there are also a range of new options if you hit the 140 character counter.
However, links will still count — a decision we understand has its roots in making Twitter's character counter more intuitive.
Essentially, it's just an IMAP connection through the Sparrow client, but it comes with a nice little bonus: a character counter.
If you want to geotag your tweets, you hit the 140 character counter at the bottom of the tweet input box.
My only lingering gripe is a trivial one: there's no character counter to let you know how much leeway you've got before you run out of Tweet space.
Perhaps, users want a consistent experience – one that doesn't involve a million inconsequential product changes like turning stars to hearts or changing the character counter to a circle.
Assuming you allow this (and again, this isn't yet turned on for most users — though it is live for some), Tweetie will places a small red pin right next to the 140 character counter to indicate your tweet is geotagged.
But this isn't the half of it, because deflect can be a hard-counter to enemy character's ultimate abilities.
You need to be pretty resilient to get through all this, with the plots, the counter-plots, the character assassination, the accusations of loose screws, the effing and blinding.
