Study finds 50% of Tinder users have only ever been on one face-to-face date

Tinder claims to have made 30 billion matches to date, but many of those connections did not go beyond the digital world. A new analysis found that many users do not meet their potential mate in-person and the chances of finding someone interested in a long-term relationship are very slim. Researchers discovered that users need a very large number of matches in order to have just a few meetups - as only 50 percent of users met one match face-to-face. Tinder is a location-based mobile dating service app that presents users with pictures, name, age and other information of potential mates. Users swipe either left (not interested) or right (interested) on the screen, and provided both users swipe right they are matched and can begin messaging.