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Badoo: Global Online Dating Sensation

Posted on April 12, 2011

Badoo logo INDEPENDENT.CO.UK – Apr 12 - Badoo, the social network that replaces the supposed romance of online dating with instant hook-ups based on physical attraction, is now gaining some ground in the UK. Although the service is run from London, its current membership of 113M consists predominantly of users in Brazil, Spain, France and Italy and 300K people join daily. The site was founded in 2006 by now very rich Russian businessman, Andrey Andreev. The killer feature driving Badoo's success is location.

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2 thoughts on “Badoo: Global Online Dating Sensation”

  1. Jack's avatar Jack says:
    April 13, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    Well, the reason they are growing is that they’re using an unhonest marketing strategy. They’re basically spamming people who don’t have an account at the site, telling them the need to sign up in order to read mail from some blond european babe. Obviously their own fake users since you can’t get mail when you don’t have an account. I hope they goes down bad.

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  2. Jack's avatar Jack says:
    April 13, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    Well, the reason they are growing is that they’re using an unhonest marketing strategy. They’re basically spamming people who don’t have an account at the site, telling them the need to sign up in order to read mail from some blond european babe. Obviously their own fake users since you can’t get mail when you don’t have an account. I hope they goes down bad.

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