{"id":133,"date":"2011-03-04T03:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-09-13T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:08:28","slug":"techtrends-dating-in-140-characters-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-dating-in-140-characters-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"TechTrends &#8211; Dating in 140 characters or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-dating-in-140-characters-or-less\/attachment\/twitter-type-dating-service\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134\" title=\"twitter-type-dating-service\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twitter-type-dating-service.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all of the online dating options out there, what\u2019s one more gonna hurt?\u00a0 Twitter is re-entering the dating game with Luv@FirstTweet, and so far, the reviews have been mixed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The idea is pretty simple:\u00a0 once you sign up, you follow @Luvatfirsttweet which regularly tweets questions designed for someone to get to know you better.\u00a0 You reply to the tweets and your dating profile is built from those responses.\u00a0 Luv@FirstTweet then attempts to match you with others based on similar tweets.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up \u2013 purely for research purposes of course! \u2013 and the concept seems to be off to somewhat of a slow start.\u00a0 As of today, there were only 1,013 people following @Luvatfirsttweet.\u00a0 So you consider the fact that there are roughly 150 million registered Twitter users, and well, you do the math.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you\u2019re one of those folks who don\u2019t want to spend a lot of time creating profiles, checking winks, etc. this might be for you.\u00a0 It\u2019s super-easy and you\u2019re already on Twitter anyway, so why not use it to tweet your way into someone\u2019s heart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the online dating options out there, what\u2019s one more gonna hurt?\u00a0 Twitter is re-entering the dating game with Luv@FirstTweet, and so far, the reviews have been mixed.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-dating-in-140-characters-or-less\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[23,3,4,24],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-more-link","post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-life","category-techtrends","tag-dating","tag-lifestyle","tag-technology","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}