Think of the North Koreans! Vanity Fair Article Provokes Awe-Inspring Tinder

Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair.

When Vanity Fair published an article in its September issue about dating apps, Tinder obviously didn’t take it very well, and took to Twitter to have its say… In response, the Tinder Twitter account unleashed a huge barrage of tweets, calling out both the author of the piece and the idea that Tinder is a hook-up app at all.

@VanityFair Little known fact: sex was invented in 2012 when Tinder was launched.

Over the course of more than a dozen rapid-fire tweets, Tinder called the article “incredibly biased” and an example of “one-sided journalism”. “And all of that begins with a quick and dirty assessment of rapport and chemistry that occurs when people first meet face to face”.

“We have lots of data”.

“I’ll protect our brand bc I believe in the power of the 8 bil connections we have created”. For our first date, we had drinks at a bar and had a great conversation about living in Baltimore, what we do for fun, our careers, what it’s like to be in our early 30s and so much more. Just like in real life.

The smartphone software lets users swipe through a stream of images of single people located around them – a left swipe blocks the user, while a right one shows interest.

“Tinder proved that the most important quality in another person is not their personality, but their proximity”, said Buress, while presenting the company with the “breakout of the year” award.

The tweetstorm goes on for some 20-25+ more tweets.

Talk to the female journalist in Pakistan who wrote just yesterday about using Tinder to find a relationship where being gay is illegal.
Talk to our many users in China and North Korea who find a way to meet people on Tinder even though Facebook is banned. “An undecided girl at the end of your date is not what you want when you’ve invested so much time and money”, he says. The big dudes from the company-who-shall-no-longer-be-named came after me and told me to give up my name (or else) so after drinking three bottles of wine a night and rocking back and forth screaming, ‘WHO AM I?…