Google+ has quietly turned off its shared circles feature

Google+ has quietly turned off its shared circles feature

I didn’t realise Google had done this. Although I didn’t use the feature that often, it was useful. I wonder how this will affect the likes of CircleCount and Circloscope ?

http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/09/google-has-quietly-turned-off-its-shared-circles-feature/