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Dating app expert reveals exactly the best time to be online to guarantee the perfect match

  • Dating app experts have revealed exactly the best time to get online
  • While you would expect this to be on the weekend, this is surprisingly not the case

By Shivali Best for Mailonline

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While dating apps were once seen as taboo, they are now one of the main ways single people around the world find love.

And if you’re planning on delving into the dating scene, you’ll be happy to know that help is available.

Dating app experts have revealed exactly the best time to go online to ensure the perfect match.

While you would expect this to be during a busy weekend, this is surprisingly not the case.

Instead, experts at Bumble claim that Monday between 8pm and 9pm is the best time to arrange a date online.

Dating app experts have revealed exactly the best time to go online to guarantee the perfect match

Best times to get on with dating apps in the UK

  1. Monday at 8 p.m
  2. Tuesday at 9 p.m
  3. Thursday at 7 p.m
  4. Sunday at 5 p.m

The entire month of January is ‘peak dating season’ on dating apps, with a whopping 11.4 million more messages sent globally on Tinder from January 1 to February 14 compared to the rest of the year.

The ultimate wave came on the first Sunday in January, also known as ‘Dating Sunday’.

However, if you missed this, all is not lost as Bumble has revealed the peak times on its app.

Outside of Mondays at 8pm, the best times to use the app in Britain are Tuesdays at 9pm, Thursdays at 7pm and Sundays at 5pm, according to Bumble.

“Bumble’s recent research found that almost a quarter of Brits are being more conscious with their time when it comes to dating,” says Bumble.

“Instead of mindlessly swiping, spend an hour or less looking for connections to intention.”

The advice is likely to be welcomed by many singles, who have expressed their interest in dating this new year

One user wrote: ‘New Year’s resolution: find a stable partner so I can finally delete my dating apps for good’

One joked: ‘My New Year’s resolution is to start dating again but I’ve said that for the last two new years and haven’t done it so let’s see how long this lasts’

The advice is likely to be welcomed by many singles, who have expressed their interest in dating this new year.

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Another added: “New Year’s resolution: find a stable partner so I can finally delete my dating apps for good.”

And one joked: ‘My New Year’s resolution is to start dating again, but I’ve said that for the last two new years and haven’t done it, so let’s see how long this lasts.’

HOW DID ONLINE DATING BECOME SO POPULAR?

The very first incarnation of a dating app dates back to 1995, when Match.com first launched.

The website allowed singles to upload a profile and a photo and chat with people online.

The app was intended to allow people looking for long-term relationships to meet each other.

eHarmony was developed in 2000 and two years later, Ashley Madison, a site dedicated to infidelity and cheating, was first launched.

Over the next 10-15 years, a plethora of other dating sites with unique target groups were set up, including: OKCupid (2004), Plenty of Fish (2006), Grindr (2009), and Happn (2013).

Launched in 2012, Tinder was the first swipe-based dating platform.

After the initial launch, usage snowballed and by March 2014 there were one billion matches per day worldwide.

In 2014, Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd launched Bumble, a dating app that empowered women by only allowing women to send the first message.

The popularity of mobile dating apps such as Tinder, Badoo and more recently Bumble is due to a growing number of younger users with busy schedules.

In the 1990s, there was a stigma attached to online dating as it was considered a last-ditch effort to find love.

This belief has disappeared and now about a third of marriages take place between couples who met online.

A 2014 study found that 84 percent of dating app users used online dating services to look for a romantic relationship.

Twenty-four percent indicate that they use online dating apps explicitly for sexual encounters.

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