How to Use Tinder Algorithms and Improve Your Chances of Dating

Next, you start viewing the profiles of others. You get profiles of people of your chosen gender and age. If you don't like a person, you swipe their photo to the left. If you like it - to the right. If you both swipe to the right, this is a match: a chat window will open and you can start chatting. The users you “rejected” will never know for sure if you've seen them at all - so they won't be offended. You also won't know who gave you NOPE.

Austin Carr, a journalist of the Fast Company portal, wrote that the application works on the basis of an algorithm, and recently a book by French journalist Judith DuPorteuil “Love by Algorithm. How Tinder dictates who we sleep with. Thanks to her, we learned that the description of Tinder algorithms all this time was in the public domain in the form.

How Tinder decides who to introduce you to

So, the application is accessing some of your data. On the one hand, it uses information in order to select the most suitable candidates for you, on the other hand, to show you ads.

In the application, you can register by phone number or through your Facebook account. In the second case, it is written that in the second case, information from the profile, including from the Instagram page (which, like Tinder, belongs to Facebook), automatically flows into the application.

Arthur Khachuyan Data Scientist, developer of the new dating app Adele.

In fact, the same thing happens when registering with a phone number, if it is linked to your pages in these social networks.

By the way, not only the data about you that you have openly indicated is collected. For example, if an advertiser uploads the phone numbers of his customers or customers to the Facebook advertising account (to show them advertising again, for example) and there is your number among them, then your profile is associated with a certain area, interest.

In theory, this can also affect the selection of a pair (you can see which brands have your contacts). The system also remembers all sites and applications in which you registered under its account. So if, for example, you often make online orders in sex shops, leaving your phone number, then in theory you can see strange people in stockings or latex suits more often than others.

The privacy policy also says that the device from which you log in is recognized, your advertising identifiers are determined. For example, AAID in Google is the number assigned to you by which search engine advertising systems track your consumer behavior: which banners and links you click on.

There is no evidence that information from Yandex can be pulled into Tinder, and even more so from the social network VKontakte. Competing social networks will not share information.

Arthur Khachuyan

The service evaluates your photos (for example, if you have a lot of frames from travel, the application will remember that you are a traveler), the entered data (education, interests, dating goals), analyzes your correspondence with other users (reads by artificial intelligence, not a person, not worry). Judith Deportey requested a report from the company for herself and received a file of 802 pages - roughly how much Tinder knows about everyone who signed up for it.

Ideally, the application should select people with similar interests: for example, those who also travel a lot, indicated the same university (or another, but with the same status), are in the same or similar Facebook groups as you. Tinder then shows you to those users, and theirs to you. At the same time, she is experimenting with other categories of interests - what if you "go" to each other? That is why you should not like everyone in a row - this will prevent the algorithm from determining which people you like and which you don't.

However, Arthur Khachuyan suggests that Tinder is mainly trying to show people nearby. And already from them he chooses more or less similar to you. Or not?

Of course, the algorithm is just an algorithm - it is imperfect and is constantly being updated. Because of these imperfections, you can miss out on successful acquaintances, and because of updates, previously working life hacks can become useless.

Many treat "algorithm love" with indignation: it is unpleasant that some soulless system evaluates you and decides who you meet. In fact, this is expressed not only in restrictions, but also in isolating you from people who are frankly inappropriate for you. And in big cities, where the choice is very wide, it is not at all easy to find the right person without any filters.