Social:Twoo.com
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Type of site | Social network service |
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| Available in | Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese |
| Owner | Massive Media |
| Website | http://www.twoo.com |
| Alexa rank |  1188 ((As of October 2017)) [1] |
| Commercial | Free, with the option for a paid subscription |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | 2011 |
Twoo or Twoo.com is a social discovery platform launched in 2011 by Massive Media. Users create profiles, upload pictures and chat with other users. A paid subscription gives the user access to more features such as browsing invisibly and seeing who likes the user or who read the user's messages.[2]
History
The site was founded and launched in 2011 in Ghent, Belgium by Toon Coppens and Lorenz Bogaert who had previously founded Netlog.
Twoo.com is owned by Massive Media. In December 2012, Massive Media was acquired by Meetic (InterActive Corp).[3]
In 2013, Twoo acquired Stepout, a dating site that had become very popular in India, having been founded in 2008 in the US as "Ignighter", focused on group dates.[4][5]
Statistics
Twoo in numbers (as of December 2016):[6]
- 181 million users
- 200 countries
- 38 languages
Criticism
According to a 2013 report by TechCrunch, Twoo was using questionable methods to get new user registrations, with users complaints about unsolicited emails from Twoo, Twoo messaging all of their contacts, and unclear account deletion procedures.[7] In 2015, it was reported that Twoo was creating accounts in bulk based on a database from an external service bought by Twoo - Spring.me, which was not an online dating service.[8].
References
- ↑ "Twoo.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". Alexa Internet. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/twoo.com. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ↑ "Twoo | crunchbase". https://www.crunchbase.com/product/twoo#/entity.
- ↑ Wauters, Robin (2012-12-23). "Meetic Buys Netlog And Dating Site Twoo.com For $25M In Cash" (in en-US). The Next Web. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/23/meetic-iac-buys-massive-media-the-company-behind-netlog-and-badoo-rival-twoo-for-25m/#.tnw_SUiKObyN#.tnw_gWejA97w.
- ↑ "Twoo Acquires StepOut - Online Dating Insider" (in en-US). Online Dating Insider. 2013-10-15. http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2013/10/focus-dating-startups-likebright-social-dating-online-dating-insider/.
- ↑ Seligson, Hannah (2011-02-19). "Ignighter, a Dating Site, Finds Love in India" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/business/20ignite.html.
- ↑ "5 Interesting Twoo Stats and Facts (December 2016)" (in en-US). DMR. http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/business-directory/19965/twoo/.
- ↑ Gallagher, Billy (2013-08-03). "A Year Of Spam: The Twoo Experience" (in en-US). Techcrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/03/a-year-of-spam-twoo/.
- ↑ Williams, Owen (2015-12-23). "Twoo probably uses your Formspring identity for its dating site" (in en-US). The Next Web. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/12/23/getting-emails-from-a-dating-site-you-never-signed-up-for-twoo-probably-used-your-identity/.
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