Elon Musk is open to adding a dating app feature to Twitter.
The billionaire Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO responded to a pitch for a "Twinder" dating app by writing, "interesting idea, maybe jobs too."
The pitch came from content creator Steven Mark Ryan, a YouTuber who posts videos on tech and finance news. Musk subscribes to Ryan's tweets. On Wednesday, Ryan asked Musk when Twitter will introduce a dating feature, claiming that an opt-in app on Twitter would vastly outperform competing dating apps and potentially solve declining fertility rates in developed countries.
Like any investigative journalist worth their salt, I went directly to the source: I tweeted out a request asking people to share their experiences using Twitter like a dating app. I was pleasantly surprised (and not at all bitter) to discover how many success stories flooded my inbox. (Should I be shocked that some cheeky suitors took the thread as an opportunity to woo me in my DMs? Of course not.)
"When Twitter dating app?" Ryan tweeted. "Might actually save humanity from extinction. Not even joking. Very low hanging fruit. Besides … the 'EVERYTHING App', right? p.s. I could make an entire video on how this opt-in app would work and why it would be 10x better than conventional dating apps. Twinder would be HUGE."
The comments under the thread and the messages I received include tales of hook-ups, rejections, marriages, friendships, and, sometimes, fiery DM banter that fizzled IRL. My biggest takeaway from all of them is that you can find the same triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of courtship with Twitter as you can with Hinge, Tinder, or even approaching a stranger at a bar. In fact, the parallels to in-person flirting might be the crux of my argument: Social media is actually a closer mirror to the risks and reward of real-life flirting than the painstaking artifice of dating apps.
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