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Bumble trivia: 58 amazing facts about the dating app

Bumble is a location-based social and dating application. It is unique cause only females can make the first contact.

Let’s find out some unknown and facts about the app!

Bumble is a location-based social and dating application that facilitates communication between interested users
In heterosexual matches, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users
While in same-sex matches either person can send a message first
Users can sign up using Facebook, and have options of searching for romantic matches or, in “BFF mode”, friends
Bumble Bizz facilitates business communications
Bumble was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd shortly after she left Tinder, a dating app she co-founded
Due to growing tensions with other company executives
Wolfe Herd has described Bumble as a “feminist dating app”
As of September 2019, with a monthly user base of 5 million
Bumble is the second-most popular dating app in the U.S. after Tinder
According to a June 2016 survey, 46.2% of its users are female
According to Forbes, the company is valued at more than $1 billion
It has over 55 million users
Whitney Wolfe Herd, the co-founder of Tinder, founded Bumble shortly after leaving Tinder
Wolfe Herd sued Tinder for sexual discrimination and harassment and settled for just over $1 million in September 2014
Amidst the media attention surrounding the lawsuit, acquaintance and Badoo founder and CEO Andrey Andreev contacted Wolfe Herd via email, and the two met up
Andreev suggested she get back into the dating space
The pair eventually formed a partnership
Andreev would receive 79% ownership in the company following an initial investment of $10 million along with additional investments
Wolfe Herd would serve as founder, CEO and 20% owner
As part of the agreement, the new company would also utilize Badoo’s infrastructure and Andreev’s consulting
After the partnership was established, the pair recruited fellow Tinder departees Chris Gulczynski and Sarah Mick to design the interface and help launch Bumble
Bumble was launched three months later in December 2014
The app is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has 70 employees globally
In March 2016, Bumble released BFF mode as a way for users to find platonic friends
After switching into the mode, the app replaces potential dates with people of the user’s same sex who are also looking for friends
In June 2016, Bumble announced a partnership with Spotify that would allow users to connect their Spotify account to their profile to show their music interests
In March 2017, the company announced its plan to launch a career networking app, Bumble Bizz
In August 2017, Bumble partnered with the Anti-Defamation League in an effort to remove users who display hate symbols in their profiles
In October 2017, the company launched Bumble Bizz which also uses a woman-first interface as an attempt to remove “the soliciting nature and sexism that exists in networking”
According to Forbes, the company was valued at more than $1 billion in November 2017
In April 2019, Bumble launched its own lifestyle magazine called Bumble Mag
Bumble had a reported 22 million users as of November 2017
And 27 million downloads as of February 2018
As of September 2019, Bumble was the second most popular dating app in the U.S.
With a monthly user base 5 million
An April 2016 report by SurveyMonkey stated that 49% of users went on the app daily, and 46.2% of users were female
Wolfe Herd has stated that within the app’s first eight months it saw 5 million unique conversations initiated, all by women
In April 2018, Bumble reported that 85% of users were “looking for marriage or a boyfriend/girlfriend”
While 4% of men and under 1% of women were “looking for a hookup”
They also reported that 25% of users had gone on a first date with someone they found on the app within the previous month
Bumble has also reported that its users spend an average of 62 minutes on the app daily
In October 2016, the app launched new photo moderation rules that banned mirror selfies, obscured faces, and photos of users in underwear among others
According to the New York Times, as of March 2017, Bumble had more than 800 million matches and 10 billion swipes per month
It is the second most popular Lifestyle app in the iOS App Store
Bumble has been considered as a “feminist Tinder”
Its founder has confirmed this identity, calling the app “100 percent feminist”
Although she has attempted to distance the app from Tinder in interviews
Wolfe Herd shared in an interview with Vanity Fair the concept behind the app: “If you look at where we are in the current heteronormative rules surrounding dating, the unwritten rule puts the woman a peg under the man—the man feels the pressure to go first in a conversation, and the woman feels pressure to sit on her hands… If we can take some of the pressure off the man and put some of that encouragement in the woman’s lap, I think we are taking a step in the right direction, especially in terms of really being true to feminism. I think we are the first feminist, or first attempt at a feminist dating app”
In June 2016, Bumble posted an open letter to its blog and blocked a user for sexist behavior after he had an outburst at a female user who asked him what he did for a living
Bumble has had mixed reviews
Reviewers have noted that “the time limit [for communications to be initiated by the woman] is really off-putting”
And “Bumble’s incessant push notifications are worded just dramatically enough as to be anxiety inducing”
Bumble users are being tracked every day and there is even a company called Buzzhumble
It sells this information to people looking for their spouses on the platform
Bumble has been widely criticized for not offering to refund purchases, even those made by mistake
Bumble is being sued for not offering refunds of purchases, despite not offering a cancel button
The lawsuit caption is Schlossberg v. Bumble trading inc, et al., case No. 1:18-cv-08376, in the US district court for the Southern District of New York