It's sad nobody can see past the length of a tweet and it makes it so no actual communication can be done: I make points often in my messages and nobody reads them and just say 'Trash' without knowing what they are talking about.
It is as if I went to a Taco Belli restaurant and just said to the manager 'Burrito sucks' and he says 'Too bad' and I leave. Neither will get me a better taco experience compared to if I informed him/her the dirty kitchen he CAN fix which will improve morality
I think there will always be avenues for longer content, but you have to keep in mind what twitter is for. It's not for long content. It never was, so you really shouldn't have expectations people read through entire tweet threads. If you want good reception and user interactivity your tweets need to be any combination of: short, witty and aggressive.
If you want to talk about something that can't be done in 140 characters, or have something you want to link, put the link in and make an eye-catching headline that piques the viewers interest. The object of the tweet is purely to convince the viewer that the content is important or interesting enough that it is worth their valuable time to spend reading it instead of reading other tweets or doing something else just as important. Look at the reddit thread titles and see which do well and which don't. Same for tweets. It doesn't seem like it at first glance but there's definitely an art that goes into making things eye catching.
And this isn't even getting into improving follower count, which does matter if you want to make people put more stock into your tweets. And of course don't have an anime or other sort of cartoon profile pic.
*I don't bother with twitter anymore so maybe I'm wrong. Feel free to correct me, everyone. This is just general info I've picked up from different places from years of shitposting, reading about psychology, persuasion, etc.