Swedish broadcaster joins the exodus from Twitter

Sveriges Radio has announced it is leaving Twitter, explaining that its listeners no longer use the platform. The company's head of social media, Christian Gillinger, wrote that the audience has chosen other places to be and that limited time and resources mean the broadcaster is forced to "opt in and out all the time". Sveriges joined Twitter in 2009 and is joining other publicly-funded American news outlets PBS and National Public Radio, as well as Canadian outlet CBC. In Europe, affected accounts including the BBC are labeled as "publicly-funded," rather than "government-funded," and the designation does not seem to bother the Swedish broadcaster.