My Friend “Broke” Tinder After Changing The Way She Swiped Online

Because even Tinder is built on… Love? No! Codes and algorithms!

Joanna Henderson
Heart Affairs
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4 min readMay 2, 2021

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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.”

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Joanna Henderson
Heart Affairs

Canadian. Mental health activist. Banker and financier who drinks too much coffee. Pursuing happiness and sharing my thoughts with others.