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Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by greenSunglass on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:12AM (#39368310)
how do one not on the app get notified he/she got liked?
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by horatio_thomas on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:41AM (#39368447)
The idea is you slide into their dm's or reply/like their tweets to subtly flirt/get them to notice you ;)
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by ramon156 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:09AM (#39369372)
This sounds like a perfect ingredient for the dumpster fire that twitter already is
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by andrewstuart on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:57AM (#39368853)
Political Twitter is a garbage fire of people each in their own belief bubble yelling abuse at each other.

I wouldn’t have thought such a cesspool would be the place to lean casually in the bar and ask if you come here often but what the hell would I know about dating anyway. Maybe that’s what people want these days.

Maybe there’s nicer corners of Twitter where people are more civil abd presenting their best self instead of their worst and open to dating.

Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by Oarch on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:18AM (#39368994)
Makes me endlessly thankful how well moderated HN is
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by suddenclarity on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:06AM (#39369361)
HN is also bad at times. Just look at this post where two of three main comments are the same old rant about Twitter and have little to do with the topic. HN discourages a lot of political topics so instead you get pseudo discussions about Musk or the environment disguised as tech discussions, but imho it's more about topic selection than moderation behind the difference in atmosphere.

Regarding the actual topic, I think it's a bad idea to just have a login wall with no information about the service or how it works. I do believe there's some value in matching people based on their social media accounts considering how much they must know about us.

Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by andrewstuart on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:01AM (#39368883)
No one bothers calling it X do they. They’ll study the rebranding of Twitter alongside New Coke for the next 50 years.
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by rsynnott on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:49AM (#39369227)
It's pretty unusual for a rebrand of any iconic brand to work out, really; people rarely _try_ of course, but I'm struggling to think of _any_ scenario where one succeeded.
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by bmitc on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:14AM (#39368968)
Twitter barely enters into my consciousnesses, but I personally refuse to call it X. It's the little things. Haha.
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by TheLoafOfBread on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:53AM (#39370413)
You can call it Xitter. Much more on brand.
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by Log_out_ on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @12:40PM (#39372666)
Xitters clogged
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by pschuegr on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @04:10PM (#39375425)
it doesn't help that they haven't changed the URL. great work all round
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by keiferkif on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:02AM (#39369845)
Great, now the delusional crypto-bros and deranged political posters can get together.
Re:Ex-Tinder engineer made a dating app for Twitter by rsynnott on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:00AM (#39371441)
The society wedding of the year, in which Ian Miles Cheong marries a crypto-shilling ChatGPT bot.