A bachelorette can't see her matches, but she can ask them ice-breaking questions like, "If I kissed you and you turned into a frog, what would you do?" OK, so that was a scene from 1960s TV game show The Dating Game, but the new app Twine offers a similar experience for the 21st century.
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SourceBits, the software development studio perhaps best known for iOS games like Apocalypse Max and Robokill, is taking on Tinder with its own flirting app, Twine. (Full disclosure: SourceBits received funding from TechHive parent company IDG.) The concept is similar: The app, which debuted Wednesday on iOS and Android, finds other Twine users nearby and introduces you for the purpose of dating. Both apps mine your Facebook profile for photos and information—and to prove you're a real person. That's where the similarities end.
Where Tinder is unabashedly based on looks—swipe to the right if you see a hottie, swipe to the left to send them to the discard pile—Twine shows only a blurred profile photo and forces you to have a conversation based on common interests. The app will even help you out: It offers a (patent pending) icebreaker feature that generates a pick-up line based on shared tastes in music or movies.
If you feel a spark after messaging your mystery admirer within the app, you can choose to reveal yourself. The other person has to choose to reveal, too, for the two of you to see each other's photos. See? Just like The Dating Game.
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