Tinder

No, Tinder, I Do Not Want to Bang Bernie

Tinder, the dating equivalent of trying on a bunch of different pairs of pants before giving up and eating some cheese fries, just announced a new feature called Swipe the Vote. The goal, ostensibly, is to enable young people to become more politically aware while they swipe through potential fuck partners. Starting today, users can…

The Crazy Backstory Behind Tinder’s New STD Testing Locator

In addition to love and happiness, you can now find your way to STD testing centers on Tinder. Sounds like a weird feature, right? You don’t know the half of it. If you go to Tinder’s website, tap “support” on the top, and scroll all the way down to the bottom, click on the link…

So Tinder’s CEO Might Have Violated SEC Rules With That Weird Interview

Not only did Tinder cofounder and CEO Sean Rad comes off as extremely dumb in a recent interview, he may have violated the Security & Exchange Commission’s quiet period for Tinder’s imminent IPO. What’s the word for that? After an interview was published today in the Evening Standard where, among other things, Rad confuses the…

Tinder Swipes Left On Its CEO

Rejection is tough. Just a few days after Tinder lashed out in a choreographed and ill-advised Twitter attack over a silly magazine story about its app, the company has fired its short-lived CEO. Yes, Tinder’s now-former chief executive Chris Payne is having a tough week. Tinder and Payne broke up on Wednesday, pretty much before…

Tinder’s Twitter Account Is Freaking The Hell Out

In a recent article, Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”, Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales threw seven kinds of shade on Tinder and everything it stands for. Rather than issue a tersely-worded statement upholding its belief in the sanctity of marriage, Tinder found the keys to the Twitter account, and let loose.…

Tinder Wants You to Think You’ll Boink a Celebrity

At last, no more roaming the streets of your town hoping Cupid’s arrow will guide you to that dreamy B-movie star or hot relative of the mayor. Because thanks to Tinder’s new Verified Profiles, those local celebrities on Tinder will now be verified—which, in theory, means your dream of dating them could come true! The…

A Crazy Satisfying Theory About Why You Love Swiping Right

Swipe, swipe, swipe. Hundreds of swipes every day on Tinder. I’m lonely, ok?! It turns out I’m not just desperate for love though. Tinder might be tapping into human psychology. Are we hardwired to swipe right? Do I need to explain what Tinder is? It’s a dating app: When you swipe right, you’re saying “yes”…

Tinder Jumps In Bed With Instagram, And Everything Else You Missed

Tinder teams up with Instagram, handwriting makes a comeback, and Sony may release its next flagship smartphone sooner than you’d think. BitStream has all the news and rumors you missed in the last 24 hours. Tinder has always been more about looks and less about personality, like going to a speed dating event but you’re…

How Tinder Would Have Looked in the 1980s

Swipe left? What do you mean “swipe”? How’s about pressing the left arrow key to move a pixelated image of a man wearing a jean jacket to the recycling bin! Then just wait, wait, wait, and try again. Everyone’s dream partner is out there somewhere, and if no one calls the landline, maybe you’ll find…

For 30somethings, It’s Tinder That’s Doing the Screwing

Tinder sets age-based pricing tiers, BlackBerry makes a weird sliding phone, and Cyanogen wants to “slaughter” Samsung. The last 24 hour of news bits and rumors have been full of weird, and it’s all on BitStream. Tinder Plus launched yesterday and with it came a very strange pricing model—one completely based on age. For U.S…

Bartenders Talk About Your Terrible Tinder Dates

Oh, Tinder, OkCupid, Grindr, whatever your particular dating app poison. Your first date dramas play in bars the world over. Because bars are a typical venue for painfully awkward first encounters, bartenders all have a front-row seat—and they’re definitely talking about it. The bartenders in this video by The Daily Share explain that spotting a…

Meet Twindr, the Twitter/Tinder Mashup You Never Knew You Didn’t Need

There are so many apps! Some are useful. Most are not. Only a select few, however, manage to summarize a fundamental paucity of creativity with just their name. Twindr is one of those rare and magnificently solipsistic birds. Twindr is not Tinder for twins, unfortunately, although there is a parody app that uses the same…

Tinder Around The World

Traveling around the world? Tinder can help you meet people. Obviously. But its easy intimacy can also help plug you into adventure. Here’s how it worked for us, along with some of the people we met through it during our travels. I arrived in Oslo, Norway from Copenhagen via bus on a cold, stormy September…

Harsh Dating App Bans the Creeps Who Keep Striking Out

Do you love the low-risk emotional distancing of Tinder but hate having to swipe through all the riffraff to get there? A new dating app called The Grade is here to help, giving you the same Facebook-powered swiping but without all the undesirables. Because it bans anyone who doesn’t make the cut. Just like Tinder,…

Tinder Is Finally Getting an Undo Button (For a Price)

Tinder is about to help you fix the biggest mistake you ever make on Tinder: Swiping left instead of swiping right. But if you want that magical power, you’re going to have to pay for it. TechCrunch reports that the undo button will be part of a suite of new features available to users as…

Tinderjust announced that the so-far totally free dating app will launch a premium service in early November. “We are adding features users have been begging us for,” said CEO Sean Rad. No word on what those features will be yet, however.

Using iOS 8’s QuickType on Tinder Will Not Get You Laid

Among the worst features of Apple’s iOS 8 is QuickType, a feature that believes it can figure out what you’re going to text someone before you even think of it. It could be magical, instead it’s only good for writing nonsense sentences and mangling famous movie quotes. But maybe, just maybe you can use it…

This Robot Maximizes Your Chance of Finding Love on Tinder

Tinder is a great way to findhookups romance near you, but it still relies on you and your potential partner finding each other mutually attractive. Since you can’t always rely on that, why not boost your odds—say, with a robotic finger that can “like” up to 900 Tinderers per hour? Andrew Sink’s Tinder-O-Matic is an…

I Paid $50 for a Tinder Coach and All I Got Was This Sense of Doom

I opened the Facebook chat with my Tinder coach expecting to walk away with a hilarious story. It’s a coach for Tinder; how could it be anything but? But one hour, $50, and five extensively researched photos later, I had only one thought: Holy shit, that was depressing. Only about a month old, TinderUs has…

Whitney Cummings Offers Advice About Your Tinder Pics

Tinder demands some degree of vanity—it’s an app designed to get you laid on looks alone, duh—but some people still get it very, very wrong. Whitney Cummings provided some biting criticism when Conan asked for her feedback. Posing with an expensive car? You probably hired it. Showing off your guns? You must be unemployed. Dressed…