Dating sites for twitterers

I did a search for dating sites catering to the Twitter niche and found just three:

I did a google search and found these sites:

Site	Alexa.com rank
http://plentyoftweeps.com	1121827
http://flirt140.com	2100858
http://www.datetwit.com	3116521

Based on the poor Alexa rankings there is not much fire in these sites just yet. Advertising might still be ramped up, but in the mean time compare for example, my purely academic tree genus site which has an Alexa ranking of 1605781, and it is not advertised anywhere.
Any reasonably active site should have a rank lower than 100,000.
I guess love just doesn't fit into 140 characters!

New Twitter Scam

There are all sorts of Twitter scams, but I just noticed a new one. They pretend to be something interesting to get you to follow, and a while later they show a different identity. Otherwise I can't explain why I would have followed anything like this.



Twitter probably isn't the first place one would expect to find porn, but I suppose now it is also trying to figure out how to find itself using the new media. So I have to keep watching on who I am following to weed out the non-brainiac activity.
http://twitter.com/BrainiacDating

Top Online Dating Sites on Twitter

I recently started tweeting about Brainiac Dating on Twitter, and wanted to see what the major online dating sites were doing... and the answer is not much! Seems like an excellent opportunity for a dating application... who's going to be first?

Site	Tweets	Followers
Match.com	1562	2470
Zoosk	1030	3506
OKCupid	998	2452
LavaLife	394	388
BrainiacDating	301	364
JDate	268	2535
Chemistry.com	265	1201
EHarmony	83	821
PlentyOfFish	48	548
DateHookup	12	1077
Mingle2	3	264

The big question is how to provide high quality tweets so that you get more followers? I have been giving the profiles of the day and interesting contributions from the members, and articles like this!

Making a purpose of Twittering

Twitter is all the rage yet, like most I can't figure out how to make it work for Brainiac Dating.
At first I asked members on the site if they wanted to sign up, but only a few took me up on it.
There are chat rooms on the site, and perhaps people preferred to stay in there.
Today there are about 35 followers, which is tiny compared to the Facebook fan page which has 350 fans.
The site has over 17,000 members, so this still represents a tiny fraction, but it would be nice to get more
followers who help spread the word.

So today, I did something rather unique and created a member collage for the Twitter page background:


Click here for the Twitter page.
Maybe I'll start advertising in the Brainiac Dating chat room to see if at least those folks will move over...