Article: "A First Look at User Activity on Tinder"

[TheFinalWord]

Interesting paper published on men vs. women's Tinder activity:

 

Full paper:

 

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/files/Tinder.pdf

 

Main takeaways I found:

 

• Ratio of male to female match rate was 1:16. In other words, for every 1 match a male received, women received 16 matches.
  
  • Women are pickier in whom they like than men.
    
  • Men tend to like more profiles, and then filter post-match, i.e. men play the numbers game on Tinder.
    

   

 

• Women tend to have a longer interval between matching and messaging than male users.
  
  • 63% of messages sent by men occur within 5 minutes of the match taking place. This is only 18% for women.
    
  • But, if a female does match with you, eventually she is more likely to initiate communication if the male does not initiate first contact. "21% of female matches send a message, whereas only 7% of male matches send a message. Thus, women who match with us are 3 times more engaged than men"
    

   

 

• Controlled experimentation has found match rate can be increased by using better pictures, even if the picture is of the same individuals.
  
  • This study also found that for men, when they increased their pic number from 1 to 3, their match rate increased from 44 to 238!
    
  • In other words, get professional pictures and use those for your profile!
    

   

 

• Bios are also important.
  
  • "Without bios, our male stock profiles received an average of 16 matches from women; this increases four-fold to 69 with a bio"
    

   

Edited October 23, 2019 by TheFinalWord

[preraph]

So I'm guessing bios weren't that important for the guys?

[thefooloftheyear]

So I'm guessing bios weren't that important for the guys?

 

 

Nah.....boobs over bios

 

TFY

[mr_ybor]

I've always had a halfway decent bio.

 

Also, I firmly believe that almost no one reads bios. Not sure why, though.

[Michelle ma Belle]

Those stats don't surprise me at all. And I think those stats can also be applied to most OLD apps.

[mark clemson]

• Bios are also important.
  
  • "Without bios, our male stock profiles received an average of 16 matches from women; this increases four-fold to 69 with a bio"
    

   

Interesting. This seems to align with some points from A Billion Wicked Thoughts:

 

"Men's and women's tastes are radically different. ... The top 5 women's sites are story-based (FanFiction.net, StephanieMeyers.com, eHarlequin.com, AdultFanFiction.net). The first video site does not appear until #5 (ForTheGirls.com) and gets less than 6% the traffic as FanFiction.net."

 

and later

 

"Many women pay for celebrity biographies to read about the private life of Leonardo DiCaprio or Johnny Depp, but won't pay money to see them nude."

 

The Book Outlines Wiki / A Billion Wicked Thoughts

[Trail Blazer]

I don't have a bio and it hasn't affected my ability to match. Having said that, would it really increase it so much more if I had a decent bio? I doubt it, but maybe I'll try.

 

I also agree about how women will initiate conversations later if men don't in the first five minutes. This happens to me frequently. However, statistics don't often tell the full story.

 

The women guys are more likely to respond to in the first five minutes of matching are probably women who are less likely to respond at a later stage if a guy doesn't initiate first.

 

I'm more likely to respond within five minutes if the girl is really attractive. If she's somewhat attractive or even average, I'm less likely to respond in five minutes.

 

An attractive girl is less likely to initiate something later if I don't respond within five minutes of matching because she's probably too busy conversing with all the guys who did respond to her in the first five minutes.