My Friend “Broke” Tinder After Changing The Way She Swiped Online
Because even Tinder is built on… Love? No! Codes and algorithms!
My best friend has been telling me about her underwhelming online dating experience for months: how barely anyone has decent profiles, how so few people match with her, how almost no one messages her first.
Daisy — let’s call her that — has felt frustrated for a while and was considering ending this tedious Tinder experiment.
But a week later, she called me and sounded super excited.
“I figured out a trick! — she almost yelled in my ear. — And I got so many matches! Guys are messaging me now. I broke Tinder!”
I laughed very loudly at the last comment. But I got curious: what did she do, what was the so-called “secret” she figured out?
There aren’t probably any secrets to apps, more like algorithms, lines of codes, and other programming-related stuff. Daisy would know much more about it: she’s the computer programmer in our friend group, I’m just a simple banker.
“I broke Tinder! — she repeated. — Okay, maybe I didn’t break it per se. But now I know how the algorithm works.”
