The secret to have success on Tinder? “Be yourself” – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

The secret of how to meet people using Tinder is to be genuine, assured this Wednesday the co-founder and executive chairman of that application for mobile phones created four years ago and that has already created 20 billion connections between its users.

“Are you yourselves,” said Sean Rad, the Web Summit, which takes place in Lisbon, when asked by the editor-in-chief of the british edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, Farrah Storr, about the best way to get the greatest number of ‘matches’ [connections] in that app.

Sean Rad has created the Tinder, there are four years to help his shyness. “I had problems in making the initial approach [in contact with someone]. Reimaginámos the way people know each other, to solve a problem that many people face,” he said.

In Tinder, users receive suggestions of people (men or women, depending on the choice they make) based on the profile that you create in the application. The choice or rejection is made by sliding the finger on the screen of the phone on top of a photograph of the person suggested. Slide to the right is how to make a ‘like’ and to the left is a rejection. When two people have ‘taste’ is created a ‘match’ (link), and then you can start a conversation in a ‘chat’.

For this north american of 30 years, the ‘app’ that has created “empowers both men and women.” “No offense to anyone, helps you decide with whom you want to talk and to give a signal,” he said, confessing “never” have thought that the application “would explode”.

In the conversation this Wednesday, which took place in Meo Arena, Sean Rad also said that, to get that many connections, it is essential to choose good photos”, but cautioned that “photos of the model do not work”. “We can see in the photos that is false,” he said, adding that “group shots are not effective”.

in addition, it is proved “statistically” that “he who has a ‘bio’ [short descriptive text about themselves] is more likely to have a ‘match’”.

“The more complete your profile the more matches and the more experiences you will have”

The Tinder is seen by many as a ‘coupler’, but Sean Rad ensures that “more than 80% of the users are looking for long term relations”.

“we have Created the Tinder to connect people, make it easy to meet new people. What you do after is not up to us to judge,” he said, reiterating that in four years had been made “20 billion connections” and “this should be celebrated”.

in Addition to help, in the virtual world, bringing people together, which then relate to form loving and/or sexual violence in the real world, Tinder has also helped users got jobs.

“I Hired a person with whom I did ‘match’ on Tinder, ‘” said Sean Rad, who has had “a long lasting relationship that started on Tinder,” and today, in the day you use the app to “talk with users and get feedback”.

The Web Summit is a global conference on technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, which runs until Thursday, where they waited more than 50,000 participants from over 165 countries, including more than 20,000 companies, 7.000 executive officers and 700 investors.

Among the speakers will be the founders and executive officers of the largest technology companies, as well as important personalities from the areas of sport, fashion and music.