Post Subject: LuvAtFirstTweet: A Twitter-Based Online Dating Service

Post Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/luvatfirsttweet-twitter-online-dating_n_827630.html

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Website: Luv@FirstTweet

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This is a post from the new series created by Huffington Post called HuffPostTech, Socialized and allows social startups such as apps, services to websites to be featured here.

Today, the feature is called ‘Luv@FirsTweet’ which as you can guess is a twist in the online dating with the goal of using the speed and ease of Twitter to find pontential dates.

Launched this January, it is a free Twitter-based dating service and eliminates the profile building and browsing typical of many other dating sites according to the founder Jonathan Lehr. How this works, is that you start following luvatfirsttweet account with your own Twitter handle and you respond to any of the daily tweets like “What tv show do you make sure to watch every week?” and you can reply using @replies. In this way the system builds up your profile and according to Lehr it’s perfect for the busy person to build their profile and we can match them to our algorithms.

To get started just visit Luv@FirstTweet’s website, or follow them on @LuvAtFirstTweet. Interesting concept, let’s see how well it does.

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