tinder hacks ebookIN THIS POST-TINDER world, your profile picture is everything. The world swipes right (acceptance!) or swipes left (rejection!) based solely on what your photo looks like. Not what you look like. What your photo looks like. So, when hunting for dates and other forms of conjugation, you better get that photo right. Your future could hinge on whether you choose the pic where you’re hugging the labradoodle or the one where you’re hiking through the woods.**But now, you needn’t sweat this issue quite so much. Today, Tinder introduced a tool it calls Smart Photos. You upload five or six photos into the popular dating app, and through a combination of machine learning and what’s called multi-armed bandit testing, it decides which photos will likely appeal to which people. And it will automatically serve up what it thinks is the right one. In preliminary user testing, the company says, the tool led to a 12 percent uptick in matches. “Users have a lot of photos to express themselves but each one resonates with the person looking at it in a different way,” says Tinder CEO Sean Rad. “Even though you think the photo you pick as the primary photo is your best one, a lot of the time it isn’t.”**The tool is part of an ever-growing movement towards a form of machine learning called deep neural networks—systems that can learn tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data. This technique helps recognize faces and objects in photos posted to Facebook. It helps identify commands spoken into smartphones. And it’s beginning to reinvent machine translation and natural language understanding—not to mention online hookups. But Tinder is also playing into another enormous online trend: A/B testing and other similar ways of testing Internet content on the Internet itself, with real live users. The result is a far more precise way of getting a swipe right.The Tinder screenshot, accompanied with a caption “stay classy ladies”, was posted by a guy called Chris, who didn’t know it was a song but found it pretty funny.**“I saw the picture on Tinder, thought it was sort of funny, posted it online as a joke - didn’t know the girl obviously. Didn’t mean any intent, it was just a bit of a laugh,” he told Hack last month.**Some of his friends responded - one helpfully pointed out the line comes from a Drake song, and called Olivia a “grubby bitch”. Another commented “this is why I worry about having a daughter”.**2. Olivia responds**Olivia then posted comments on her own Facebook page about it:**"S/O to boys posting your tinder profile on Facebook, I wasn't aware I had to put my CV in my Tinder Bio apparently Drake lyrics aren't okay? Shame on you Chris for your ignorance of Drake & good taste."**3. Olivia and Paloma's friends respond**Olivia, her friend Paloma, and their friends caught on to what was going down.**“What a f***ing piece of shit, let’s hope he is impotent so he never reproduces,” said one.**Another commented that she shouldn’t be surprised her profile would be lifted from her page.**“Whatever you meant by the sentence Olivia, it will be interpreted however people want. Also once you load something to the internet, any form of ownership is null there...if someone feels like doing something with a tinder pic they’re free to do so.”**Then it allegedly got really vile courtesy of a guy called Zane. He allegedly posted “I wouldn’t let these c***s taste their own s**t off my dick,” he said.**“The best things about feminists is they don’t get action so when you rape them it’s 100 times tighter.”I never intended to be known as a “Tinder Expert,” but I’m certainly not mad because of it. My first Tinder experiment wasn’t written with the intention of going viral. But it did.**These days, I own it. I love it. After helping hundreds of guys improve their match rates, increase their message response rates, and get more dates from Tinder, I like to think I know a thing or two about improving your success on the wildly popular dating app.**After the original blog post went mainstream, I wrote an eBook called TinderHacks, which was an extension of my first experiment. I tested dozens of profile pictures to see which ones got the most matches. I optimized my bio to see what helped drive conversations. And I tested intro lines with my 4,000+ matches to see what women actually respond to.**The book has done great, and continues to sell each and every day. The problem is — many readers take it too literally. Guys are hung up on copying exactly what I did, word-for-word, rather than learning from the underlying strategies and principles.**The truth is, there isn’t one “magic opening line” that is going to get the best response rate for everyone. There are certainly good ones and bad ones, but the best one is unique based on your age, location, and the type of woman you’re trying to attract (check out Tinder Conversation Starters guide for ideas). The same goes for your bio, images, moments, and every little nuance Tinder lets you custom
