Longer text is one of Twitter’s desire paths. Brevity is the core of Twitter’s format and I think there’s a better solution for giving people access to longer text that doesn’t sacrifice part of what made Twitter great. So why not make longer text another type of attachment, like a “note”? Longer text goes into a note and then a summary is displayed using the existing Twitter card system. Text stored as text can be indexed and searched properly while text stored as an image can’t be without additional steps.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2017 04:57 UTC