Tinder has an 800 Page File On You
Including data about exactly when you get horny.
Judith Duportail first installed tinder after she went through a break-up. Reading through the 1700 sent messages on her tinder report, she looks slightly embarrassed. On one occasion, she had used the same pickup line on 16 matches and then ghosted all of them.
After reading some horrifying truths on tinder’s practices, Judith decided to ask tinder for her personal data. She wrote Tinder, hoping to find out her attractiveness score.
She received 800 sheets of paper with every last conversation she had, pictures she liked both on and off of tinder, and some more intimate information best left undisclosed.
They decide whether you are hot or not.
Tinder’s Elo algorithm (They claim that they no longer use it, but identical alternatives are likely still in place) rated users based on their “league”.
This means the higher number of right swipes you get, the higher is your score. It does not stop there. If someone with a high attractiveness score swipes right on you, your score goes up. However if someone “unattractive” swipes left on you, you are doomed.
They then use these scores to show you people in your league. Your profile…