STAR OBSERVER – May 21 – A survey by Romeo (Planet Romeo), an Amsterdam-based gay dating app, has revealed that 70% of those surveyed said they haven't gone out on dates. 48.3% were keeping dates online only, while 21.6% said that the COVID-19 fallout had sapped their interest in dating. Half of the participants (50%) were also worried about their financial futures, and less than half (43.2%) were concerned about how the global pandemic would affect their health.
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Grindr and Romeo Can Expose User Locations
FAST COMPANY – Aug 8 – Researchers from the cyber-security company Pen Test Partners found that Grindr, Recon, and Romeo apps allow users to share their general location by displaying their distance from each other. Anyone with basic computing skills could use that information to determine another user's exact location using a method known as trilateration. The researchers created a tool that faked their own location and did all the trilateration calculations automatically, in bulk, allowing them to generate maps of precise user locations for thousands of individuals at a time.
by Michael Grothaus
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One in Two Grindr Users Believe They’ll Find True Love on the App
GAYSTARNEWS – Mar 5 – A study by Compare The Market showed 56.5% of Grindr users believe they can find the love of their life on the dating app. Moreover, 84% of Grindr users said they have fallen in love with someone via the app. Her, a dating app for queer women, came in close with 81% of their users saying the same. PlanetRomeo users were the most skeptical to love, with 16.7% answering 'no, love cannot be found on online dating apps.'
by Josh Milton
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In India, Dating Apps Are Helping The LGBTQ Community Find Love
HINDUSTAN TIMES – Sep 8 – Online matchmaking in India has come a long way since shaadi.com launched in 1996. Tinder, launched in India in 2014, followed by Indian dating apps TrulyMadly (2015) and ekCoffee (2016). The earliest queer dating platform, PlanetRomeo, launched worldwide in 2002. It claims 3M users globally and India comprises 7% of that. Grindr, with 10M users worldwide, recorded a gradual increase from 11k to 69k monthly users between 2011 and 2015 from India. The figures convinced Scruff, an American dating app for men, to enter India in July this year.
by Poorva Joshi
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PlanetRomeo To Launch On Apple Watch
PR NEWSWIRE – Mar 23 – PlanetRomeo, a gay dating app, will be launching its smartwatch app in late April for the Apple watch.
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