If you use hugely popular data app Tinder, you should know that it’s assigned you a secret “desirability” score that ranks you based on several different factors. Fast Company’s Austin Carr recently ...

Fast Company journalist Austin Carr says he has regretted finding out his internal score, which Tinder execs call an “elo score”, a term that chess players use to rank a player’s skill level. Tinder ...

The more getting rejected changes, the more getting rejected stays the same. Tinder announced in a March 15 blog post that it had stopped showing users potential matches based on the frequency with ...

Say what you will about Tinder (I mean, I certainly have), but there is something a little bit satisfying about the “It’s a Match!” message. Come on, how could it not be? The guy or gal at the other ...

In a recent interview with Fast Company, Tinder revealed a secret. The dating app confessed that every Tinder user has a secret internal rating aka the “Elo score.” The score is calculated by the ...

That successful connection you made on Tinder was not fate; it was an algorithm deciding how desirable you truly are. Tinder’s CEO Sean Rad revealed in an interview with Fast Company that there’s an ...

Tinder has revealed that it no longer relies on its top-secret "Elo" desirability score to create matches. Instead, it apparently uses a new algorithm that sounds very similar to the old one, with the ...

If you think the people you see on Tinder are shown to you randomly, you're mistaken. As part of a profile of the company's CEO Sean Rad, Fast Company writer Austin Carr was given access to his hidden ...

This post originally appeared on Business Insider. Fast Company has a big new profile about Tinder and its CEO Sean Rad. The interview with Rad was conducted back in November but the story was ...

If you've used Tinder often enough, you've probably wondered whether there was a science behind who your matches are. Well, it's now certain that there is -- although whether or not you like it is ...