Swipebuster For Tinder
Search for anyone on Tinder today. The first and only effective tool to do a Tinder profile search on the web. You only need first name, age and general location. The Swipebuster (Swipe buster) website, now Cheaterbuster, was designed to calm the curiosities of a relationship on the rocks. How, you may ask? By way of Tinder, the go-to. Tinder Swipebuster. Tinder seems like a good idea: You send a fake picture of yourself to a girl you’re interested in. She responds, you make a few flirtatious comments and she seems like she wants to meet you ASAP. Seems like a perfect match! Except, it doesn’t quite work out like that. Swipebuster uses information that Tinder makes publicly available, to tell you if and how someone is using the app. Simply give Swipebuster the name of the person you want information about, and the probable location where they last used Tinder, and pay a few dollars for the report.
One new website wants to show the world that if people play with Tinder, they’re going to get burned.
For only $4.99, Swipebuster helps customers find out if a specific person has an active Tinder account and shows their last known location, according to The Guardian. Users enter a first name, age and relative location to search for other Tinder users in the area.
In an ironic twist, the developer behind the website that exposes Tinder users is choosing to stay anonymous. Swipebuster’s developer told Vanity Fair that his intention was not to help couples catch cheating partners, but to show how easy it is to retrieve Tinder users’ personal information. The developer’s ultimate goal, he said, was for Tinder to take steps to make its users’ information private.
Vanity Fair reported that a Tinder spokesperson said in a statement, “searchable information on the Web site is public information that Tinder users have on their profiles. If you want to see who’s on Tinder we recommend saving your money and downloading the app for free.”
Because Tinder gives users all of the basic information they need, the only real use for Swipebuster is to stalk people.
And in a more dangerous sense, the app allows obsessive ex-partners or abusers to keep tabs on a former mate even after the two have lost contact. The potential for misuse makes justifying the website’s social commentary even more difficult.
As the Tinder spokeswoman pointed out, the best way to find out if someone is on Tinder is to download Tinder for free. Tinder Plus even allows users to swipe in cities other than their own.
Nobody’s first thought about Swipebuster will be about its social commentary potential. Consumers will be drawn to Swipebuster for the stalk factor, not for witnessing a social point being made.
The website may be targeting Tinder and its users for making information readily available online, but the side effect is essentially shaming people for using Tinder and other online dating platforms. Technology should bolster the development of new relationships, and that’s exactly what Tinder does. It’s an easy way to get to know people without leaving the comfort of one’s home.
Tinder is the definitive dating app. Sometimes, it facilitates meaningful relationships. And that’s OK. There’s nothing wrong with meeting on an app, no matter how interesting it would be for two people to tell their future children.
People on Tinder are putting themselves into the world for a reason. They want love or a hookup or something else out of using the app. They know they’ll be seen, but they think bearing their souls in a short bio and six pictures or fewer is worth the risk.
Invading a platform many consider to be private, such as Snapchat, would be an entirely different story.
The most questionable part of Swipebuster is its ability to show a person’s last known location. This part of Tinder should be private, but making a profit off of stalkers in the name of social commentary is not the way to go about changing things.
And making the database of Tinder users private wouldn’t stop people from going on Tinder to monitor people’s lives, either. While the developer of Swipebuster wants to make Tinder more private, the dating app has visibly taken strides to do the opposite. Tinder can sync up to Facebook and Instagram, so it’s already far from serving any explicitly private purpose.
Tinder users should expect a basic level of privacy, but they shouldn’t ask for too much, considering they know their profile could be seen by anyone with similar settings. And as Facebook and Instagram are already integrated into Tinder, social media is standardized across all accounts. Privacy is not a priority on the app.
Using Tinder doesn’t need to involve a big scandal. Building relationships with the simplicity of a swipe makes the app a modern marvel. There are people on Tinder looking for love, hookups, parties or just friends. Users know the general idea of what they’re getting themselves into, and they don’t need a website to tell them anything. So Tinder on, lonely lovers. Tinder on.
— -- A new website named Swipebuster promises to reveal Tinder users’ habits - potentially enabling people to find out if a significant other has been “cheating” using the popular dating app.
It’s a resource Jenny Dey says she could have used. The Los Angeles resident recently broke up with her boyfriend after a friend reported having seen his profile on Tinder.
“It made me question the entire relationship. It was heartbreaking,” Dey, who was not on Tinder at the time, told ABC News. “I found so many messages between him and other girls.”
“Even though there wasn't any sexual intercourse involved, I do feel like that is a sign of cheating just because you're looking for something better,” she said.
For $4.95, Swipebuster – which launched this week -- allows users to learn about their significant other’s Tinder habits.
“All you need is someone's first name, age, and general location. And what will come up ... is when the person last logged onto Tinder, who they're interested in meeting, and a collection of photographs that they have used on the app,” said Emily Jane Fox, a VanityFair.com writer.
Fox was among the first to try out Swipebuster. She and her Vanity Fair colleagues used the site to find people that they knew were active Tinder users and found Swipebuster’s results to be 99 percent accurate.
“We searched about a dozen or so people in a variety of cities ... with the exception of about one very common name in New York City, every single person we were looking for turned up,” she said.
The founder of Swipebuster, who wishes to remain anonymous, told ABC News he created the site to make the public more aware that information shared on Tinder is not as private as many users may have originally thought. He said he also wants to alert people that some significant others may harbor Tinder secrets.
Tinder has long battled charges that it attracts cheaters. According to some reports, a large number of Tinder users are already in relationships. Tinder disputes this, saying just 2 percent of its users are married.
'As one of the largest social platforms in the world with 10 billion connections made in just the last few years, most people know of at least one friend or colleague who has either met their significant other on Tinder or is on currently on Tinder to date, make new friends and create all kinds of meaningful relationships,' Tinder told ABC News in a statement. 'The searchable information on Swipebuster is public information that Tinder users have on their profiles.'
'No private user information is being made public,' the company said. 'If you want to see who's on Tinder we recommend saving your money and downloading the app for free. Additionally, all user profiles on Tinder are authenticated using public information from Facebook — including first name, age, and mutual friends — which are inalterable to help ensure that users are making authentic connections with real people.'
As for allegations that Tinder may attract potential cheaters, Tinder told ABC News its app, “is definitely not the place to try and meet people if you are intent on concealing your true identity or intentions.”
Dey thinks Swipebuster is a good idea. When she does start dating again, she says she’s going to make sure any new boyfriends put their swiping days behind them.
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“If they still have Tinder on their phone, then [they're] still looking and that's what it translates (as) to me ...,” she said.