1 A First Look at User Activity on Tinder Gareth Tyson,1 Vasile C. Perta,2 Hamed Haddadi,1 Michael C. Seto,3 1 Queen Mary University of London, 2 Sapienza University of Rome, 3 Royal Ottawa Health Care Group Abstract—Mobile dating apps have become a popular...
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1 A First Look at User Activity on Tinder Gareth Tyson,1 Vasile C. Perta,2 Hamed Haddadi,1 Michael C. Seto,3 1 Queen Mary University of London, 2 Sapienza University of Rome, 3 Royal Ottawa Health Care Group Abstract—Mobile dating apps have become a popular means To explore these questions, we have performed a measure- to meet potential partners. Although several exist, one recent ment campaign of Tinder. We have created a number of curated addition stands out amongst all others. Tinder presents its users profiles [4], which we have injected into London and New with pictures of people geographically nearby, whom they can either like or dislike based on first impressions. If two users like York (§III). We have used these profiles to monitor the way others react to them, specifically in terms of matches and arXiv:1607.01952v1 [cs.SI] 7 Jul 2016 each other, they are allowed to initiate a conversation via the chat feature. In this paper we use a set of curated profiles to subsequent messag
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