Twitter is a great way to check out what’s the latest in the lives of celebs and businesses all over the world, and the popular matchmaking app, Tinder, is absolutely no exception.
Recently, Vanity Fair came out with an article about Tinder entitled Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse written by journalist Nancy Jo Sales. The article embodies how Tinder basically is ruining the dating culture of our society and is allowing the hook up culture to flourish instead. Based on multiple interviews with bitter Tinder users, the piece definitely doesn’t portray the app in a positive light and Tinder is not happy about it.
Tinder’s Twitter page went absolutely off on Nancy Jo Sales and Vanity Fair, seeming extremely personally attacked and upset about the entire article. They tweeted probably close to 20 times in a row, claiming that Vanity Fair’s article was a product of poor and biased journalism. Talk about going absolutely insane. Tinders tweets speak for themselves.
–@VanityFair Little known fact: sex was invented in 2012 when Tinder was launched.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
–@VanityFair & @nancyjosales — we have lots of data. We surveyed 265,000 of our users. But it doesn’t seem like you’re interested in facts.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Our actual data says that 1.7% of Tinder users are married — not 30% as the preposterous GlobalWebIndex article indicated.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
It's disappointing that @VanityFair thought that the tiny number of people you found for your article represent our entire global userbase 😏
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Next time reach out to us first @nancyjosales… that’s what journalists typically do.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Tinder users are on Tinder to meet people for all kinds of reasons. Sure, some of them — men and women — want to hook up.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
It’s about meeting new people for all kinds of reasons. Travel, dating, relationships, friends and a shit ton of marriages.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
If you want to try to tear us down with one-sided journalism, well, that’s your prerogative.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
This all creates social accountability so that Tinder users treat each other well.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
You could have talked about how users build a Tinder profile that expresses who they are.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Or how millions of Tinder users have connected their Instagram accounts, so potential matches can learn more about them.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Instead, your article took an incredibly biased view, which is disappointing.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
@nancyjosales We're saying we appreciate journalists who uphold their obligation to fair reporting.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 12, 2015
And you thought we were just being dramatic…not so much. Tinder was not about to take Vanity Fair’s crap. They accused Nancy Jo Sales of releasing faulty information about Tinder’s stats and tried to back themselves up with tweets about the apps success stories. We don’t know about anyone else, but we think the person who runs this account needs to take a serious chill pill. Can’t fight fire with fire, Tinder.
