Facebook has broken Tinder and users who were booted off the dating app have taken to Twitter to complain about it, as spotted first by Select All.
Ever since the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, in which as many as 87 million users had data improperly shared with the UK data mining firm, Facebook has been rolling out more security and data privacy updates. Today, however, the company announced sweeping changes to many of its most prominent APIs, restricting developer access in a number of crucial ways.
Soon after, Tinder users started noting on Twitter that they had been kicked off the dating app and couldn’t log back on, as those who used Facebook Login were caught in an infinite loop that appears to be related to an unknown bug.
The app has been bringing up an error message to booted users, titled Facebook Permissions, stating that users need to provide more Facebook permissions in order to create or use a Tinder account. If users tap “Ask me,” which is the only given option, the app requests they log into Facebook once more and the loop starts again.
That feel when tinder logs you out and doesn't let you back in. There goes my future wife.
— . P A N I I C . (@nathius_1996) April 4, 2018
@Tinder keep getting this even though I give all permissions when I login. pic.twitter.com/cIWQBKLhQf
— Nima Gardideh (@ngardideh) April 4, 2018
Roderick Hsiao, a senior software engineer at Tinder, tweeted that users could still access the service through its web browser while engineers worked on fixing the mobile client. We’ve reached out to Tinder and Facebook and will update this story when we hear back.
I have a date tonight and I don’t have her number. This is a serious problem for me in case our plans change — I’ll have no way of knowing
— Max Davids (@maxxdavids) April 4, 2018
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