STRAIGHT - Feb 4 - Meeting a romantic partner on-line isn’t a new phenomenon, as dating sites like Lavalife and eHarmony have been around for years. However, social-media services like Twitter and Facebook are opening up new avenues through which people can make on-line connections. While profiles on dating sites may offer only select details, social media can enable people to gain more insight into other people’s personalities. The rise of social-media services doesn’t worry Kate Bilenki, the operations manager for PlentyOfFish. Bilenki told the Straight her company is confident that its service remains the best way for people to make a romantic connection on-line. Bilenki asserted that, for the purpose of looking for love, Twitter is inefficient, as it connects users with a vast number of people, of which only a small percentage are possible romantic partners. “A lot of people on social-networking sites are married, they’re in relationships, and they’re not looking to date,” Bilenki said. “On our site, they’re looking for a relationship.” FULL ARTICLE @ STRAIGHT.COM
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Love or hate Twitter as a dating platform, one thing cannot be denied: It's an INCREDIBLE platform for giving guys practice at writing those all-important e-mails to women on online dating sites who they'd like to meet.
Twitter offers multiple, rapid-fire opportunities to be witty and engaging; all the while being forced to be CONCISE.
After all, there's nothing creepier to a woman online than getting an entire life story from a guy she's never met...not one word of which is interesting.
Posted by: Scot McKay | Feb 06, 2010 at 02:40 AM
Publicly practicing introductory emails on Twitter? An incredible platform for practice is sharing your emails with a friend before sending them, not publishing your clumsy 140-characters come-ons online for the world to see for all of eternity.
Most people are not rapid-fire types and would rather have the freedom to say what they want, at their own length, in their own style.
I assume that there are a lot of people who would prefer to receive Direct Message as opposed to come-on lines in their public Twitter feed. Problem is, the other person must be following you in order for you to DM them.
Do you even use Twitter?
Posted by: Daveevans | Feb 08, 2010 at 12:57 PM
I'd say I have to agree that POF is certainly a much better platform for finding romance partners than Twitter. Twitter is great for tweets but has next to no functionality for connecting lovers to each other. The same is true of Facebook. Both of these systems would need substantial modifications in order to competetively move into the dating world.
Posted by: Sarah Connor | Aug 16, 2011 at 06:20 PM