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Online dating services are responsible for over 120 thousand marriages and millions of dates per year. The latest trend is Twitter Dating.

Twitter is a free social network where users communicate in short messages of 140 characters or less. It's evolved into the Web's new hotspot for social interaction.

Now is the time to leap in and start clicking with potential partners using our handy guide to Twitter Dating Sites!

Start by going to http://search.twitter.com/advanced

Look for the "Near this place" field. In there, you can actually type a specific city - or even a zip code - and the rest is magic.

Then take a look at our recommended Twitter Dating Sites:

Flirt 140 (US)

Luv Tweets (UK)

Twitter Dating Sites in alphabetical order:

140Love

This site asks a lot of questions about your political views, personal history, and lifestyle/partner preferences.

Based on your answers to these profile questions, your best matches according to the 140Love algorithm are e-mailed to you daily.

Though the length of the sign-up process may not appeal, it creates a fairly thorough lifestyle/values profile of the people you're matched with. This information can save you a lot of tweeting time!

Bubble

Bubble, by @twitbubble, is invitation only. You have to enter your email address and await your digital invitation to use the service.

Once you're in, Bubble attempts to match you up with someone based on your tweets, friends, and followers.

DateTwit

Are you following a twitter user and don't know how to approach him/her? A short tweet <how are you doin'> might not be the best way. Datetwit provides a more suave way to flirt.

You can sort through the extensive list of twitter users by gender, age or location. Once you find a tweet who catches your eye, send a virtual smile or a cocktail.

The site says: "We don't break it down too much - that would take the fun out of it. If you are looking for the [green eyed, blond, jewish, asian chick that must love dogs but not cats] you are better off using one of the more established dating sites."

Flirt140

Flirt140 also allows members to send direct messages to anyone on Twitter, whether they are following each other or not. Its founder says that because of Twitter's popularity, Flirt140 could rival the reach of the world's largest dating site, Match.com. According to its site, Match currently has 15 million single users in 37 countries.

You can search Flirt140 by gender, location and keyword. When you sign up, you tag your own profile with searchable keywords. When you find someone you like, you can tag them with keywords you think are suitable for them (the most commonly tagged keyword is cute). You can also wink at them or send them private mail.

HintCafe

HintCafe is where you meet qualified single professionals. It's one of the most popular free online dating sites now using twitter, and a variety of other methods to help people get connected.

They offer features like Instant Messaging, secure phone calls and a sophisticated matching engine that matches you on long term compatibility. You can send messages, chat, get your matches and meet single men and women absolutely free!

LuvTweets

London-based Luvdoo has recently launched Luvtweets, a new Twitter based dating service.

Richard Gale, Founder, says “Luvtweets tackles one of the main complaints consumers have about dating services, that they are restricted in how they define themselves and pigeon holed. This is our introductory product and will be followed by our premium product, Luvdoo, which will build on our philosophy of providing solutions to age old problems in the online dating space above the need for short term revenue.”

My TweetHeart

My Tweetheart is a free single's site that has taken Twitter one step further by helping you look for friendships, romance and love! You need to send a message to @MyTweetheart with the @category' under which you want to be listed on the website.

They say: "Are you looking for friendship, romance, and/or love? @ or DM me a message to be added to the site! It is FREE! Find Your Twitter Tweetheart here!"

You follow @MyTweetheart on Twitter and then send them a DM letting them know which category you'd like your profile listed in (Men Seeking Women, Women Seeking Women, etc.). They add you to their searchable database of single Twitter users.

Plenty of Tweeps

Plenty of Tweeps is an online community for single Twitter users to meet, mingle, and get to know each other beyond their 140 character limits.

You can Search single Twitter users based on age and location. Restrict your search to Twitter users nearby, or browse single Twitter users in any city in the world.

Send and receive private messages. Expand upon your Twitter persona by adding a more detailed bio; show your best self by uploading as many photos as you like.

Radaroo

Here's a dating system designed around the idea: What do you want to do on a first date?"

Your answer to that simple question speaks volumes about you.

Users send a tweet to @radaroo with their sex, location, and what they would like to do on a first date. The app then lets you search for singles that have sent a tweet based on your country or area code.

Twintro

All you have to do is follow @twintro, and the service decides who to feature in their own Twitterstream each day. If you see someone featured that you like, you simply follow that person and start a conversation.

It's a very simple idea, albeit somewhat limited by the few number of people introduced, let alone the unlikelihood that such people will be anywhere near you in proximity.

Twitcrush

Twitcrush from @missburrows helps break the ice. While it doesn't find people for you or match you up with anyone, it enables harmless flirting. In its cutesy fashion, Twitcrush lets you declare a crush on "three tweeple [you] <3 most." And, of course, you can always find out who has a Twitcrush on you, too.

iClick: Twitter Dating

with America's #1 dating experts, Scot and Emily McKay

More Great Twitter Resources

Twitter Clients

Tweetie

Tweetie earns fans because its interface is a lot like the iPhone's text message interface. There's a version for your iPhone, and also for your Mac

Twittelator Pro

Full featured iPhone client, highly recommended

If you are using a laptop or other machine with limited screen space, try Twitteroo or Twhirl.

Either will give you a good ability to track and send messages, while receiving automated notifications of certain events. Each of these unobtrusive apps requires only a small window to view, and can be minimized when desired.

But if you are so blessed as to have a larger viewing area to work with, the undisputed champ of the desktop Twitter apps has got to be Tweetdeck.

This Adobe-Air powered program is by far the most feature-rich desktop Twitter app I've seen...especially considering it's still free to download. Tweetdeck allows you to separate tweets, @replies, a search function and even tag clouds into separate columns within the interface. The ability to monitor @replies with such elegant simplicity and immediacy - even after having stepped away from the computer - is clearly a powerful tool as you begin conversations with any number of women (or other friends for that matter) on Twitter.

Search Engines

Tweetscan: The salient feature of this app is its ability to search tweets featuring your username, someone else's username or any generic search term, really. As such, you can tell who is mentioning you and/or any other topic of interest - even when not used in the context of an @reply.
Besides being privy to any chatter about you, this tool could give you what looks like clairvoyant power to capture a woman's interest with a topic that interests her...seemingly (and perhaps magically) out of nowhere.

Twitscoop: This could be thought of as the mirror image of Tweetscan. Rather than finding search terms like "needles in haystacks" as it were, Twitscoop gives you a snapshot of the overall hottest terms at any given point in time. This is pure gold if you are ever at a total loss with regard to how to begin an @reply conversation with a particular woman.

Miscellaneous

TwitBacks

Create your own Twitter background with your branding - Free.

Tweetworks

This website's software can actually group users according to interest. This means you can essentially build "chatroom" functionality into the Twitter works. What is particularly intriguing is that you can set it up so that tweets to one another within the "group" can be either private or public to your other Twitter followers. This allows either for "intimate" discussion or potential invitation to others to join in the conversation. Clearly, this is a tremendous way to create a sense of “community” that others will want in on.

SocialOompth

Offers additional features which are particularly powerful - and unavailable as of right now on the standard Twitter interface.
I also recommend SocialToo, which lets you block unwanted automatically- generated DMs.

Twitpic

True to its name, this app allows you to share and receive pictures on Twitter. In many ways, this is the 'holy grail" of Twitter "killer apps" since it covers what is as yet a glaring weakness in the Twitter user experience. The advantages to using this service when dating online are rather obvious, especially as you successfully begin conversations that could lead to offline meetings.

http://twitter.grader.com/

You'll probably be pleasantly surprised by your ranking sooner than later - especially once you've put into effect the strategies for gaining followers that I'm sharing with you. This means you can talk about Twitter Grader in your tweets, and even get a badge with your ranking on it to use on your website.


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