Tinder Adds Built-In Panic Button, Photo Verification
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by Stephanie Mlot
4y ago
Photo Credit: athree23 / Pixabay Your hookups are about to get a lot more secure. Tinder this week announced new safety features, including access to personal emergency services and anti-catfishing photo verification. “Every day, millions of our members trust us to introduce them to new people, and we’re dedicated to building innovative safety features powered by best-in-class technology that meet the needs of today’s daters,” Tinder CEO Elie Seidman said in a statement. “I’m proud to share these updates, which represent an important step in driving our safety work forward at an unmat ..read more
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New Tinder Alert Protects LGBTQ Users in Hostile Nations
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by Stephanie Mlot
5y ago
(via Jasmin Sessler/Unsplash) Love is love is love is love—even when found on Tinder. To keep users safe in the nearly 70 countries that effectively criminalize the LGBTQ+ community, Tinder is launching a new Traveler Alert feature. Folks who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer will no longer automatically appear on Tinder when they open the dating app in discriminatory nations. Rather, once the Traveler Alert is activated, users have the option to remain hidden or opt into making their profile public. And even if you do choose to connect with new people, your pr ..read more
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New Tinder Feature Sparks Summer Music Fest Lovin’
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by Stephanie Mlot
5y ago
Claim your festival on your profile, see who's going where, and find your crowd before you get there (via Tinder) Tinder introduced a new feature to help summer festival-goers find love … or whatever. In “Festival Mode,” users can highlight planned concert destinations by adding badges to their profile, then match and chat with others attending the same event. “It’s no secret that Tinder is a must-have app for singles attending music festivals around the world,” Chief Marketing Officer Jenny Campbell said in a statement. “We consistently see a spike in Tinder use as tens of thousands ..read more
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Tinder Beats Netflix As Top-Grossing App
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by Jordan Minor
5y ago
It’s way too cliche to make any kind of “Netflix and chill” joke in 2019. But how else am I supposed to start a news story involving sexuality and everyone’s favorite streaming TV service? So screw it, let’s just lean into the corniness. For the first time Tinder is now beating Netflix as the highest-grossing app on Apple’s App Store, proving that people are way more into “chilling” than they’re into “Netflix.” The news comes with a few caveats. First, this doesn’t include game apps. If you include all the millions of dollars users funnel into exploitative “free” mobile games then the competit ..read more
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Tinder Now Has a ‘Spring Break’ Mode for College Hookups
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by Genevieve Scarano
5y ago
Tinder's Spring Break mode. (Photo Credit: Tinder) Leaving town or staying home for your spring break? Tinder has you covered. The dating app is unveiling Spring Break mode, a new feature that will allow college students to display their destinations and mingle with prospective matches during their time off. Tinder’s Spring Break mode, which will be available to college students using Tinder U, will begin rolling out on March 4. Spring Break mode will feature more than 20 vacation spots and Spring Break badges can be displayed from March 4 to March 31, Engadget reported. “Tbh, we’ve ..read more
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Cows Now Have Their Own Tinder-Style Dating App
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by Stephanie Valera
5y ago
Photo Credit: Ferran Feixas/Unsplash “Moo-ve” over, Tinder. A new dating app, which helps farmers match up potential partners for their cattle, is making users swipe right. Launched just in time for Valentine’s Day, Tudder (a portmanteau of “Tinder” and “udder”) lets farmers connect cows with bulls for breeding purposes. When farmers swipe right on cattle they’re interested in, they are directed to a page on the SellMyLivestock website where they can browse more pictures and data about the animals before deciding whether to buy, according to Reuters. Information such as milk yield and ..read more
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Tinder for Foodies: Samsung Turns Smart Fridge Into Dating Service
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by Stephanie Mlot
5y ago
Photo Credit: Samsung/Refrigerdating When it comes to dating, it’s not what’s on the outside that counts. It’s what’s inside … your fridge. Samsung this week introduced Refrigerdating—a Tinder-esque platform for meeting people based on the contents of your ice box. “By uploading an image of your food, you can get in contact with others who have realized that you are what you eat,” the company said. Part of a stunt to promote Samsung’s pricey Family Hub smart fridges, the dating app lets users swipe right or left based on how appealing they find someone else’s refrigerator interior. P ..read more
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Facebook Dating Expands to Canada and Thailand, Adds New Features
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by Stephanie Valera
5y ago
Photo Credit: Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook is hoping that “like” turns into love. The social-networking firm announced Thursday that it is expanding its online dating service Facebook Dating to two new markets — Canada and Thailand. Facebook Dating first launched in Colombia in September after being unveiled at Facebook’s F8 conference earlier this year. Facebook Dating operates within the core Facebook app, not as a spinoff like Messenger, with users creating profiles that are separate from their Facebook ones and kept out of sight of friends. Facebook will recomm ..read more
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Geek’s Guide to Online Dating
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by K. Thor Jensen
5y ago
Back in the early days of the Internet, there was something of a stigma attached to online dating. It was considered sort of nerdy to depend on a computer to match you up with a mate as opposed to the old-fashioned methods of hitting on strangers at bars or being introduced to someone by a coworker. But as time passed and technology improved, we started to do more and more stuff online – including romance. Now it’s distressingly normal to meet the love of your life over a data connection, and some of the matchmaking services have been in business long enough that if they were people they could ..read more
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Facebook Starts Testing Tinder-Esque Service
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by Daniel Starkey
5y ago
Credit: Pixabay Facebook is continuing its push to be the absolute center of our collective social lives with a new initiative to incorporate a Tinder-esque service into its messenger app. Geek.com sister site, AskMen notes that you can already pay your friends back, order pizzas, and, of course, send bomb-ass vaporwave-themed gifs via Messenger. Why not skip a few steps and go Dutch on a pizza while listening to vaporwave with someone you found in the app? Reporting for Motherboard, Jacob Dubé says that he noticed a new feature that seemed like it was setting him up with some of his ..read more
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