Twoo or Twoo.com was a social discovery platform launched in 2011 by Massive Media. Users create profiles, upload pictures and chat with other users. The website and app is available in 38 languages and counted 181 million users in 200 countries in December 2016.[1] Twoo announced that they will shut down on June 30, 2022, alerting users of this by way of pop-up notices when the users log in.[2] Users were migrated to POF (Plenty of Fish).
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Type of site | Social network service |
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| Available in | Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese |
| Owner | Massive Media |
| URL | http://www.twoo.com |
| Commercial | Free, with the option for a paid subscription |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | 2011 |
| Current status | discontinued on June 30, 2022 |
History
editIn 2011 Toon Coppens and Lorenz Bogaert launched the dating website Twoo in Ghent, Belgium. Their company Massive Media previously founded Netlog.
In August 2012 TechCrunch reported accusations of Twoo forwarding invitations to its users' email contacts using spamming methods.[3] According to the 2013 follow-up report Twoo was still using questionable spamming methods to get new user registrations, with users complaints about unsolicited emails from Twoo, Twoo messaging all of their contacts, and unclear account deletion procedures.[4][5]
In December 2012, Massive Media was acquired by the Meetic Group. In 2013, this French dating company was acquired by InterActive Corp owner of the Match Group.[6]
In 2013, Twoo acquired Stepout, a dating site that had become very popular in India, having been founded in 2008 in the US as "Ignighter", focused on group dates.[7][8]
In August 2015 the social questions-and-answers service Spring.me became a Twoo.com portal. Users were automatically migrated to Twoo's dating service, creating "shell accounts" for the dating site from their Q&A site accounts. This move, along with accusations of fake accounts, has raised ethical and legal questions about the company's conduct.[9][10][11]
On 30 June 2022 Twoo was discontinued.
See also
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References
edit- ^ "5 Interesting Twoo Stats and Facts (December 2016)". DMR. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ "Vlaams ontmoetingsplatform Twoo stopt per 30 juni". Gratisdatingtips (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ Billy Gallagher (August 3, 2012). "Users Claim Twoo Is Spamming Their Friends, Social Network Says It's "Just Not Clear Enough"". TechCrunch. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- ^ Gallagher, Billy (2013-08-03). "A Year Of Spam: The Twoo Experience". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
- ^ Billy Gallagher (August 3, 2013). "A Year Of Spam: The Twoo Experience". TechCrunch. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- ^ Wauters, Robin (2012-12-23). "Meetic Buys Netlog And Dating Site Twoo.com For $25M In Cash". The Next Web. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ "Twoo Acquires StepOut - Online Dating Insider". Online Dating Insider. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
- ^ Seligson, Hannah (2011-02-19). "Ignighter, a Dating Site, Finds Love in India". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
- ^ Andy Barratt (August 18, 2015). "Twoo, the dating site you didn't ask to join". Geek Scot. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- ^ Owen Williams (December 23, 2015). "Getting emails from a dating site you never signed up for? Twoo probably used your identity". TheNextWeb. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- ^ Williams, Owen (2015-12-23). "Twoo probably uses your Formspring identity for its dating site". The Next Web. Retrieved 2018-01-04.