Philip “Pud” Kaplan, founder of FuckedCompany and Adbrite, is adding another Twitter application to his name. He recently created both Tweetname, a domain name registering site and Fast140, a Twitter speed typing game. Now Pud is launching Flirt140, a flirting and dating site for Twitter.
A free service, Flirt140 allows you to search for Twitter users by gender, geographic area and keyword. The site uses oAuth to connect to your Twitter account. Kaplan says a proprietary algorithm is used to determine gender of Twitter users and claims that it’s pretty accurate.
Flirt140 also allows members to send direct messages to anyone on Twitter, whether they are following each other or not. Kaplan says that because of Twitter’s popularity, Flirt140 could rival the reach of the world’s largest dating site, Match.com. According to its site, Match currently has 15 million single users in 37 countries.
Kaplan also started Kaplan Index, a stealth startup that will focus on the employment space.
just finished my simple URL cutter for Twitters, and wondering what you think… http://www.cut.TW
Ok seriously, Twitter dating? Now this shit is getting absolutely ridiculous. So how does one opt out of this?
FC is still alive! http://retro.f2bbs.com
It looks like the “winks” and messages all travel through the @Flirt140 account. If you block that user on Twitter, nobody on Flirt140 should be able to bother you.
Romance in 140 characters, relationship for 140 minutes.
I just did a search and I kid you not, the first result was a girl saying this:
“I’m pregnant! Mark and I are so excited. ”
haha.
Some guys are into that.
Just sayin
– pk
You are a pile of fail
philip has made enough money from his various startups to retire if he wanted. that doesn’t sound like a fail to me.
what have you done?
just sayin
How’s riding around in that Mini-cooper working out? Does you fat head stick out of the sunroof.
Profitless small start up LOL
yuo=fail.
crazy idea that may actually be a hit. this guy knows the viral hits. there may be folks not into twitter but this will appeal to them sex sells.
I tried it and it couldn’t find me anyone to flirt with:-)
That’s because nobody loves a FriendFeed user.
HOW DO YOU OPT OUT? I’M GETTING TWEETS LEFT AND RIGHT (YES, I AM DAT GOOD LOOKING). NORMALLY I’D BE HAPPY ABOUT DIS, BUT I AM ENGAGED NOW. DOES NOT LOOK GOOD WHEN MY BITCH CHECKS MY TWEETS.
:sadbanana:
I was wondering when someone was going to make the twitter & dating connection. I don’t think it will work, but I knew someone would come out with it.
pile of fail
Y’know, they’re acting like this is the first service to mix dating and twitter and…. it’s not, I have a friend that worked on a site called “mytweetheart.”
What happened to the Kaplan Index? He already abandoned that site before it even opened.
why does this tool Kaplan get free PR on every crappy site shits out?
Anyone remember Black Label Porn site he had for a while? LOL!
Yet, that’s a site that’s apparently never been mentioned on TechCrunch until now.
This might be the day where your friend learns that having first mover advantage isn’t a good as having the PR advantage.
http://www.140love.com is better.
Gee, I wonder how pud came up with the idea for his new dating site?
Just what the world needs yet another dating site.
Network Timeout
The server at flirt140.com is taking too long to respond.
The requested site did not respond to a connection request and the browser has stopped waiting for a reply.
* Could the server be experiencing high demand or a temporary outage? Try again later.
* Are you unable to browse other sites? Check the computer’s network connection.
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HOW DO YOU OPT-OUT????
Calm down, and bock @Flirt140. Not that I think it’s really necessary — girls don’t really go for the ALL-CAPS guys, you know?
FIX SERVER, NERD.
OMG!! THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER! NO ONE HAVE THOUGHT OF DATING ON THE INTRAWEBS YET!
PURELY INGENIOUS!!
HOW CAN I BUY PRE-IPO STOCKS?!?!
PLEASE TELL ME!! I WANT IN!!
WHAT WILL HE THINK OF NEXT!! MAYBE A PORN SITE..OH WAIT!! LOL
I must say, I hate this guy. The amount of vitriol he allowed to be spewed at company’s struggling to make it by spinelessly anonymous disgruntled employees with zero accountability still makes me sick to my stomach. Everyone thought it was so cute. I did not.
You sound jealous.
No, actually there’s a point there. He provided a stage for pretty much the most pissed off people on the planet (disgruntled emps) to bash at other people’s dreams (company owners).
Remember this last big thing pud started? kaplan Index..well that shut down before he even opened it.
Why does TechCrunch bother “reporting” on what Mr. Fail-Boy Kaplan does?
He is washed up.
is he even still in charge at adbrite?
he’s still chairman
kaplan index never went live. PIP PWNED!!!
this guy is such a scumbag
Classic:
http://flirt140.com/tag/gay
Is it even POSSIBLE for you guys to make a post without using the word Twitter? Jesus Twittering Christ. Seriously.
“Jesus Twittering Christ” is going to be my new catchphrase. Seriously.
There are already so many sites related to dating.What is so special in this?is it bcoz they are all tweeting?
anything but adbrite
I think it seems cool. I wonder how the algorithym works. That’s got to be a bit difficult. I wonder what happens if Twitter sees this as spam is that allowable under their TOS?
either way good luck guys welcome to the dating community.
available just for USA…
interesting. Let’s see if it will emerge into a Tencent dating business model:
http://www.weal...ncent-changyou/
great idea!
Radaroo, Twitcush, bubble and lots of others trying to do the same thing in EU. Fun but questionable utility.
another crazy application. Might be hit for a while ..
and where is the money ..twitter buys you out
What I don’t understand is how the account is able to direct message other accounts without being friends. Does the company have some special deal with twitter?
It isn’t direct-messaging people. It sends an @-reply (from @Flirt140) with a link back to the private message on flirt140.com.
Or, check out http://flrti.com for a more public take on it matching people up in 140 characters.
Or, check out http://twitic.com, presumably something like meetic.com, except twitter’ly
The people are much better looking at: http://www.hottweeters.com/
I recently started a twitter dating site also, tweetfordates.com. Definitely think “Twitter Dating” could be a trend.
Also see http://twitter.com/hintcafe They have like 22,000+ followers