Tinder crashed and now love is dead

Hope you enjoy being alone, forever.
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Keith Wagstaff
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Love died on Thursday.

In the evening hours, when starry-eyed Tinder users were searching for their soulmates, the iOS version of the app crashed.

The wake of devastation was apparent on social media, where people expressed how their only chance at true happiness had just slipped away.


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Won't Tinder think of Jimmy, who is talking to some "real hot females?"

Also, it's happy hour, Tinder. HAPPY HOUR. How is Prince K going to meet someone? By perhaps going to a bar, where, in the early evening, drinks are available at a discount? Where is he going to find something like that?

A Tinder spokesperson told me the company was aware of the problem and was in the process of fixing it.

As of 10 p.m. ET, Tinder was still down, according to a test on an account I joined as like a joke or something.

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Keith Wagstaff

Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.

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