PlentyOfTweeps.com-The Dating Site For Twitterers

Jul 7, 2010 | 1 Comment |

By: Co-Editor, RB:

Besides adult entertainment, dating sites have maybe been some of the most successful and well-suited businesses for online commerce. Match.com and eHarmony.com are wildly successful businesses as are many niche dating sites.

Indeed, we previously covered a company that, among other things, has a dating site for those in recovery from substance abuse.

Playing off the name of the successful dating site plentyoffish.com comes a startup called PlentyOfTweeps.com. Like plentyoffish, it is free.

PlentyOfTweeps.com bills itself as the dating for Twitter users.

How does the site work?

You can find single Twitter users in your city. You search single Twitter users based on age and location. You can add a detailed bio and upload photos. This will allow you to expand your Twitter persona by adding a more detailed bio and photos that show your best self. You can get someone’s attention by clicking the like button on their profile. The site then sends them an anonymous notification. When they log in, they’ll find out who liked them.

The founders cite numerous reasons to use PlentyOfTweeps including:

Twitter users tend to be well-educated, self-motivated, doers of interesting things.

Twitter gives you a unique window into someone’s life. A user’s Twitter activity stream can tell you far more about what that person is really like than some stock “long walks on the beach” online dating profile.

You can “like” anyone on Twitter. Including anyone from the single Twitterers near you to your favorite musicians, actors, writers, athletes and other fascinating people.

You login with your existing Twitter account. No need to think of another username and password.

The site was founded by Brad Bollenbach, who is a blogger at 30sleeps.com and Mark Rainer, the founder of the site UsedCanada.com. The operate the site out of Vancouver, British Columbia (apparently in Mr. Bollenbach’s kitchen) and it was launched in October of 2009.

I think it has a great chance of catching on, and certainly the price is right.