Thursday says it has hit a $50M valuation and opened a Series A, targeting $500M within five years, per a LinkedIn post by co-founder George Rawlings.
X is rewriting its search code after AI bot traffic overwhelmed it, according to Nikita Bier. Dating apps face the same AI spam and fraud risks.
Saudi Arabia's dating app market made nearly $16M from 3.5 million downloads in the past year, with users paying for privacy and anonymity features.
UK dating app usage has fallen 16% since 2024, with Tinder losing over 500,000 British users, as human matchmaking grows 8% annually.
A Tokyo District Court awarded ¥1.5M ($9,800) against a married man who hid his marital status on a dating app, with another case seeking ¥5.5M.
Swept has added an in-app Date Planner and VPN detection, and will make government ID verification mandatory for all visible profiles by March 2026.
Sumsub survey: 84% of UK dating app users say AI content makes matches harder to trust, up from 64%, with 67% now verifying matches themselves.
Snapchat has restricted or shut 415,000 Australian teen accounts since the under-16 ban, and Snap reported a global loss of 3 million daily users.
Meta will shut down messenger.com in April 2026, so desktop users who deactivated Facebook must reactivate it. Mobile access remains.
Snapchat+ has reached 25 million paying subscribers, Snap Inc. says, more than Tinder's estimated 10-12 million, with a $1 billion run rate.
Ember Vision Ventures has launched a dating app capping users at a handful of AI-picked daily matches, positioning against the swiping model.
56% of U.S. singles view AI-generated or heavily edited dating profile photos as a red flag, according to eJuiceDB survey data.
Happn says January and summer now beat Valentine's Day for new registrations. Its survey found 39% see being single that day as 'not very serious'.
Bluesky used profile badges in February 2026 to route users to Germ DM for encrypted chat, a model the story says carries risks for dating apps.
FlirtFinder, a pay-per-message dating platform with over 500,000 members, saw messaging fall 56% in early January before a payday rebound.
Snapchat begins alpha testing Creator Subscriptions in the U.S. from 23rd February, at $4.99 to $19.99 monthly, with creators keeping approximately 60%.
TikTok Shop's new AI seller tools let dating coaches and stylists run their own storefronts, which the story says threatens dating apps' commerce plans.
Arrows study of 1,000 American singles finds 30% have tried chore-based dates and 56% are open to them, with 78% citing economic accessibility.
Pinterest missed Q4 2025 revenue consensus with $1.32B against $1.33B, and shares fell 20% despite 619 million monthly active users.
LinkedIn will remove automated comments and penalise engagement pod users, a change that affects dating brands and B2B vendors using the platform.
FilipinaMeet, a web-only dating platform for the Philippines, says it has over 20,000 signups and puts identity verification ahead of fast growth.
MyTruDate, a Florida dating app, now requires ID verification and criminal background checks for all users, a US first.
Dog-focused dating app Nuzzl launches in Austin on 21 February with a brewery event at Central Machine Works, open to owners and enthusiasts.
Pinterest reached 619 million monthly users and $1.3 billion in Q4 2025 revenue, and the story says dating apps should copy its "quiet AI" approach.
DUA AG has acquired Vancouver dating app IRLY in an undisclosed all-cash deal, its second purchase after Spotted in 2022. IRLY gave no user or revenue data.
Singles events are busy in Connecticut and New York as Match Group's paying subscribers fell 6% year-on-year in Q3 2024, pointing to app fatigue.
Portugal voted 148-69 for parental consent for 13- to 16-year-olds on social media, with fines up to 2% of global revenue.
Happn is offering three Dutch singles up to €1,500 towards housing costs from 14 to 23 February in its "Single Support" campaign.
PositiveSingles has launched a lifetime membership tier aimed at celebrities and public figures, but gives no pricing or evidence of celebrity use.
Coffee Meets Bagel users in Singapore get discounts at 11 cultural venues from 14 February 2026 under a government SG Culture Pass partnership.
Meta's Threads launched Dear Algo on 11 February, letting users publicly request three-day feed changes in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
TikTok launched Local Feed in the US on 11th February, a GPS opt-in feature for nearby venues and events that competes with dating apps' discovery tools.
Smitten, an Icelandic dating app, has launched a "Just break up" campaign in Sweden, but has disclosed no metrics to verify its claims.
Grindr is piloting an AI subscription tier called EDGE at up to $499 per month, with randomised pricing, in Australia and New Zealand first.
A clinical analysis links Valentine's Day to higher suicide risk and problematic dating app use, raising duty of care questions for platforms.
Meta has relaunched animated Facebook profile pictures, generated by Meta AI from a static photo, raising trust questions for dating apps.
India cuts its content takedown deadline from 36 hours to three on 20th February, requiring dating apps to automate deepfake and AI photo detection.
Snapchat's Home Safe recorded over 1 million activations in six months, 0.23% of its 443 million daily active users.
QuackQuack says 33% of Gen Z daters paused activity on Valentine's Day, in a survey of 10,853 active users in India.
Bluesky launched drafts in February 2026 and has 42 million sign-ups, but it has not disclosed monthly or daily active users.
Dating app RAW's Valentine's campaign in New York pairs adoption-style profile cards with hosted group events, and plans to expand beyond New York in 2026.
Breeze has partnered with ride-hailing platform Bolt to offer 40% off a first trip to a date, and a nine-point safety guide, as it expands beyond matching.
The European Commission accused TikTok on 6 February of breaching the DSA over infinite scroll and autoplay, features dating apps also use.
Snapchat's Super Bowl LX second-screen strategy offers dating apps lessons, as Match Group reported an 8% year-on-year drop in session times in Q4 2025.
Hinge will test Face Check facial recognition in Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada this quarter, plus a Direct to Date feature in spring 2026.
Bumble has reinstated women-message-first in Mexico and Australia, reversing its Opening Moves feature less than a year after launch.
Snap Inc. reported 24 million paid subscribers in Q4 2025, up 71%, as daily active users fell to 474 million, raising pressure on dating apps.
48% of actively dating Americans hide, minimise, or defer mental health discussion early on, a Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center survey finds.
Meta built a dedicated Threads studio at the NFL media centre for Super Bowl LIX, aiming to take live sports conversation from X.
HubPeople has migrated dating apps Say Allo and DiHola onto its white-label Affinity platform, replacing their entire technical infrastructure.