Here's how Twitter should do longer text, and it doesn't take 280 characters

Give the people what they want: my pitch for how Twitter should host lengthy contributions without sacrificing brevity

In urban planning, there is the concept of a "desire path".

You'd probably be familiar with desire paths from local parks - they're the worn-down dirt tracks that mark where people actually have been walking, as opposed to the neatly paved, official paths that sometimes don't actually take the best or most direct route to destination.