Online Dating Sites Begin Embracing Twitter

by David Evans on February 20, 2009   in Marketing

After seeing Match.com on Twitter yesterday I decided to see what dating sites and other related brands/people/blogs are on Twitter. I started by checking out all the people who OnlineBootyCall follows, because that seemed like a logical place to start. OBC has had a dedicated social media person monitoring Twitter since July 2008, bootylicious.

I’m http://twitter.com/daveevans, I started on Twitter back in Feb 2007. Working on this post I realized once again that I lead a bit of a dual life between the social media crowd, online dating and all of the other Internet stuff I’m involved in. I tend to keep things somewhat neatly compartmentalized, which tends to collapse in social spaces like Facebook, Twitter and Brightkite. Here’s to worlds colliding.

I wanted a list of online dating tweeps, and had to start somewhere. This list is just the tip of the iceberg, Leave your Twitter link in the comments and I’ll add you to a the list.

I’ll talk more about Twitter best practices for online dating sites in another post.

The last thing I want to see is dating sites fail when it comes to social media. Until tonight I have not been impressed, but after spending a few hours on Twitter tonight something tells me that Twitter could be the vehicle by which online dating is going to embrace social media.

Online Dating Twitter Accounts

http://twitter.com/onlinebootycall (YouTube)
http://twitter.com/MatchDotCom
http://twitter.com/DownToEarthDate (looks like they got online about 9 hours ago)
http://twitter.com/AlexTrottier (Mate1)
http://twitter.com/zoosk
http://twitter.com/iovation (Youtube)
http://twitter.com/be2net
http://twitter.com/sparkbliss
http://twitter.com/MeetMarket
http://twitter.com/OmniDate
http://twitter.com/tweetbirds
http://twitter.com/ezdatingtips
http://twitter.com/zonedate
http://twitter.com/partnermaps
http://twitter.com/DNUSADating
http://twitter.com/DatingCoach
http://twitter.com/DateAGolfer
http://twitter.com/markcbrooks
http://twitter.com/yvonnerice
http://twitter.com/datingguide
http://twitter.com/datingclublive
http://twitter.com/AskMarsVenus
http://twitter.com/MeetHerHere
http://twitter.com/CoachCarol
http://twitter.com/TopDatingTips
http://twitter.com/1stDateJitters
http://twitter.com/CoachChelle (coaches are really good at getting followers, learn from them)
http://twitter.com/gaysdotcom
http://twitter.com/ToyBoyWarehouse
http://twitter.com/eharmonyblog
http://twitter.com/eHarmony_jack (is this really eHarmony?)
http://twitter.com/EvanMarcKatz
http://twitter.com/recklessstudio
http://twitter.com/yesnomayB
http://twitter.com/DatingReview
http://twitter.com/overheardatwld
http://twitter.com/wld
http://twitter.com/christiancafe
http://twitter.com/kathrynlord
http://twitter.com/aolpersonals
http://twitter.com/successfulmatch
http://twitter.com/datecom
http://twitter.com/ignighter
http://twitter.com/MyTweetheart
http://www.twitter.com/allthedates

Favorite Twitter username I found while researching this post: HisBoysCanSwim. She has more followers than all dating sites combined and really knows how to draw interest with contests, fun blog too.

What’s your Twitter account and who else should be added to the list?

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1 Julius February 20, 2009 at 11:37 pm

You can follow us on twitter, too: http://twitter.com/gaysdotcom
Cheers, Julius

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2 Julia Macmillan February 21, 2009 at 7:39 am

I’ve just started twittering on http://twitter.com/ToyBoyWarehouse
We’re rebuilding the site at the moment to launch in the US later on this year and have a VIP section too…

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3 eHarmony Blog February 21, 2009 at 9:33 am

Good find, Dave! Our latest posts since June 2008 are twitted at http://twitter.com/eharmonyblog . At least one third of our posts are there. Many of our “followers” are also involved one way or another with online dating.

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4 Evan Marc Katz February 21, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Thanks for the tip, Dave. And yes, I’m already Twittering. I invite everyone in the online dating industry to follow my content and I’ll be pleased to follow yours…

http://twitter.com/EvanMarcKatz

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5 Tarzan @ HisBoysCanSwim February 21, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Hey David,

Just wanted to chime in here and say that I’m a very proud husband of my beautiful pregnant Jane. She’s been rocking Twitter and we just launched out contest today. (Whoever told us that running a contest on your blog is easy should be hung by their toenails for 3 hours!)

Glad to hear you liked my wife’s Twitter name!

OK… I need to clear my cookies. If Jane sees anything to do with an online dating site in my browser history – I can promise you that my boys would never swim again!

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6 Geek's Dream Girl February 21, 2009 at 8:29 pm
7 Nick February 22, 2009 at 8:01 pm

/yesnomayB

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8 Fred Moesker February 22, 2009 at 10:10 pm
9 Kyle O'Connor February 22, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Just getting started with Twitter, but here I am:

https://twitter.com/DatingReview

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10 WhiteLabelDating.com February 23, 2009 at 5:45 am

You can follow us (the UK’s leading white label dating platform) at http://twitter.com/wld

We’ve also found that working in such unusual working circumstances can lead to some very “interesting conversations”. Therefore we’ve now started an overheard feed where you can listen to what’s going on at WhiteLabelDating.com:-
http://twitter.com/overheardatwld

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11 Kathryn Lord February 23, 2009 at 9:25 am
12 Alex Trottier February 23, 2009 at 2:27 pm

twitter.com/AlexTrottier

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13 Michael Tolosa February 23, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Please add AOL Personals to the list! :)

http://twitter.com/aolpersonals

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14 Pemo Theodore February 24, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Hi great post Dave & good to see the online dating industry getting involved with Twitter – its my fave! Dont forget @MyTweetheart for Twitter dating & http://valentwine.com (matching for valentines day). You can also join the Twitter Online Dating group http://twittgroups.com/group/onlinedating & list your Twitter name in Twellow pages where I got them to set up an Online Dating subcategory under Entertainment http://www.twellow.com/category_users/cat_id/583 . You can also follow me @astramatch & @pemo & I’ll follow you back. Pemo Theodore AstraMatch

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15 sissydu2007 February 24, 2009 at 10:46 pm

Please add the best dating site to the list! Thanks.
http://twitter.com/successfulmatch

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16 john hall February 26, 2009 at 7:19 am

I’m following great twitter posts from http://www.date.com
http://twitter.com/datecom

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17 Adam February 27, 2009 at 12:13 pm

Hey Dave you forgot about:

twitter.com/ignighter

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18 Tim Taylor March 4, 2009 at 11:48 am

Hi Dave

We’ve just started twittering too… http://www.twitter.com/allthedates

Thanks

Tim

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19 Mitch Rotter March 17, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Just launching a new site for tips and tricks. Will begin to post regularily. Check us out at http://www.twit4love.com and follow us @twit4love.

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20 richard gale April 13, 2009 at 3:12 pm

Just joining the party http://www.twitter.com/luvtweets

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21 David Evans May 6, 2009 at 10:29 am

@twitbubble
@missburrows

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22 Kim May 7, 2009 at 8:08 am

It is fascinating how well Twitter works for dating! I have two more for your to add if you’re still doing so: http://twitter.com/140love & http://twitter.com/140LoveBird

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23 Pemo Theodore May 15, 2009 at 1:34 am

Hi guys I just started a Twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/onlinedating to join if you are in the industry or interested in online dating. Sweet tweams! @pemo

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24 Barrett June 17, 2009 at 1:07 am

Been on twitter for a while, I’m still trying to figure out just what to do with it to help my users
http://twitter.com/freedateonline

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25 Kam K July 5, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Hi Dave, we recently started twittering at : http://twitter.com/promatching
That’s great list you have going here.

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26 bmokip July 5, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Great twitter dating Directory. Look forward to being added and growing your listing.

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27 Jolie du Pre July 16, 2009 at 11:50 pm

My lesbian dating site is MeetHerHere.com, which I was pleased to see you have on your list. Twitter has been good for getting lesbians who are interested in meeting other lesbians to join MeetHerHere.com, so I recommend the social networking site as a good promotional tool.

Jolie du Pre
Lesbian dating site – http://www.meetherhere.com
Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/meetherhere

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28 Dating single professionals July 23, 2009 at 1:56 am

Also check out http://twitter.com/hintcafe with over 22,000 followers.

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29 love August 7, 2009 at 12:16 pm

Follow me on twitter. http://twitter.com/loveandblog

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30 Ross Felix August 28, 2009 at 2:42 pm
31 Reesa October 7, 2009 at 9:53 pm

I just purchased bluecollardates.com about 2 moths ago. I wanted to start with some social networking. I must say that tweeter has been doing ok for me. I still have to figure out how to really capitalize on it but I guess it’s a trial and error thing.

Hey not bad for a single mother running her own dating site.

follow me http://www.twitter.com/bluecollardates.com

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32 Tanya Fathers November 5, 2009 at 6:21 am

Hi David, http://twitter.com/datingfactory – new but we keep it updated

@tanyafathers

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33 datingMalta November 10, 2009 at 8:33 am

We’re launching very soon – follow us now for updates: http://twitter.com/datingMalta

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34 eLove November 10, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Hi Dave,

Could you add us to the list as well!

http://twitter.com/eLoveSuccess

Fairly new but we update it everyday.

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35 Nick Burnham November 13, 2009 at 10:27 pm

Hi David I just came accross your article and its interesting to see so many dating sites utilising twitter.. I run a website in the UK & ROI that launched a couple moths ago specifially for older women to meet network and date with younger men, it’s based around the the growing Toyboy trend. Twitter definately looks like something that would be an interesting thing for us to use / harness so I will get back in touch shorlty once we have got a ‘twitter’ account if your still accepting entries! Thanks!

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