Twoo.com

Twoo
Type of site
 Social network service
Available in Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Owner Massive Media
Website http://www.twoo.com
Alexa rank Negative increase 1188 (As of 4 October 2017) [1]
Commercial Free, with the option for a paid subscription
Registration Required
Launched 2011 (2011)

Twoo or Twoo.com is a social discovery platform launched in 2011 by Massive Media. Users create profiles, upload pictures and chat with other users. A paid subscription gives the user access to more features such as browsing invisibly and seeing who likes the user or who read the user's messages.[2]

History

The site was founded and launched in 2011 in Ghent, Belgium by Toon Coppens and Lorenz Bogaert who had previously founded Netlog.

Twoo.com is owned by Massive Media. In December 2012, Massive Media was acquired by Meetic (InterActive Corp).[3]

In 2013, Twoo acquired Stepout, a dating site that had become very popular in India, having been founded in 2008 in the US as "Ignighter", focused on group dates.[4][5]

Statistics

Twoo in numbers (as of December 2016):[6]

  • 181 million users
  • 200 countries
  • 38 languages

Criticism

According to a 2013 report by TechCrunch, Twoo was using questionable methods to get new user registrations, with users complaints about unsolicited emails from Twoo, Twoo messaging all of their contacts, and unclear account deletion procedures.[7] In 2015, it was reported that Twoo was creating accounts in bulk based on a database from an external service bought by Twoo - Spring.me, which was not an online dating service.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Twoo.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Twoo | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  3. ↑ Wauters, Robin (2012-12-23). "Meetic Buys Netlog And Dating Site Twoo.com For $25M In Cash". The Next Web. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  4. ↑ "Twoo Acquires StepOut - Online Dating Insider". Online Dating Insider. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  5. ↑ Seligson, Hannah (2011-02-19). "Ignighter, a Dating Site, Finds Love in India". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  6. ↑ "5 Interesting Twoo Stats and Facts (December 2016)". DMR. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  7. ↑ Gallagher, Billy (2013-08-03). "A Year Of Spam: The Twoo Experience". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  8. ↑ Williams, Owen (2015-12-23). "Twoo probably uses your Formspring identity for its dating site". The Next Web. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
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