Tinder is angry, and the dating-app's anger is all over their Twitter feed. So what's gotten Tinder all upset? A Vanity Fair article titled "Tinder and the dawn of Dating Apocalypse," which basically argues that Tinder is nothing more than a place for men looking for one-night stands. In the Vanity Fair article, author Nancy Jo Sales points out that Tinder and its competitors (Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid, etc) are responsible for the death of modern-day relationships. In a series of interviews with regular dating app users, Jo highlights how there's a new "hookup culture" among the 20-somethings of today and that the apps basically help people find a "sex partner as easily as they'd find a cheap flight to Florida." Tinder, of course disagrees with this description. In its social media war, Tinder sent out a flood of tweets aimed at the journalist and the article, calling it biased. Tinder's tweets also try and project the app as one that helps people find meaningful relationships, even in countries where Facebook is technically banned. (Tinder relies on Facebook profiles to link users) Check out Tinder's response tweets below. (App users click here for the full list of tweets) Nancy Jo Sales also took to Twitter to respond to Tinder's allegations and asked whether journalists needed permission to write about an app. To be fair, Vanity Fair piece is rather critical of the online dating culture as a whole and mentions other dating apps as well, but to some extent Tinder seems to be primary target. Of course this, could also be because Tinder is the most popular dating app. In addition to this, people have also questioned Tinder over its outburst on social media. Check out some of the tweets below, starting with Nancy Jo Sales. Additionally Tinder also taken offense at survey that Nancy tweeted out which said that 30 per cent of the app's users are already married. Tinder denied this charge and said that the survey was false. Tinder probably has a point when it says that people who only look for 'one-night' stands have been around and successful long before they or any other dating app appeared on the scene. But the fact that Tinder totally lost the plot on social media over the article and went after the journalist and magazine, might not work in its favour.
