Whoa. Double texting might actually get your matches to respond.
On the surface, sending multiple messages on a dating app if they haven’t replied to your first one seems like a bad idea, but what if it actually works?
Double texting, as it is known, is the process of hitting someone up a second time if you don’t hear back after your initial contact. It may sound desperate, and there are plenty of people who recoil from it, but according to data from Hinge, it is also an effective strategy.
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Over a two-week period, they analyzed 300,000 conversations that included two initial messages sent at separate times (thus they weren’t just two line openers). What they found is that if the second text came at least three hours and 52 minutes after the first, the recipient was more likely to respond than to ignore it. Iiiiiiinteresting. Read more...
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