{"id":172974,"date":"2016-07-22T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=172974"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:06:14","slug":"tinder-gets-group-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/172974-tinder-gets-group-dates.html","title":{"rendered":"Tinder gets group dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tinder has\u00a0rolled out a feature to let users make matches as groups, called Tinder Social, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/tinder-users-can-now-swipe-right-on-group-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tinder Social is designed to make it as easy as possible to plan your night, get out into the real world and meet new people,&#8221; said Tinder CEO Sean Rad.<\/p>\n<p>You can unlock the feature in the Tinder app and create a group with one to three\u00a0friends who have also opted into the function.<\/p>\n<p>Your\u00a0group chooses\u00a0a status\u00a0such as\u00a0&#8220;watch the game with us&#8221; or &#8220;happy hour&#8221;. Groups may then match up by swiping right on one another.<\/p>\n<p>Only one person per\u00a0group needs to swipe\u00a0right on each other\u00a0for two groups to be matched. Once\u00a0matched,\u00a0members of each group can chat about plans. The conversation will expire by noon the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Tinder Social was tested in Australia, and is now available in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and India.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Tinder<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/151839-your-hidden-tinder-desirability-score.html\"><strong>Your hidden Tinder desirability score<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/145877-tinder-updates-to-help-users-find-the-perfect-match.html\"><strong>Tinder updates to help users find the perfect match<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/139050-tinders-new-super-like-can-make-you-look-too-keen.html\"><strong>Tinder\u2019s new Super Like can make you look too keen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/122422-i-tried-tinder-and-i-sucked-at-it.html\"><strong>I tried Tinder, and I sucked at it<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinder Social will let users set up group dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":151865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,25075],"class_list":["post-172974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-tinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172982,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172974\/revisions\/172982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}