The most downloaded free app on Apple’s app store is not currently chat, thread or Google. It is tea, a dating advice app that allows women to review men that they have gone out, as well as other single women warning about dates that they claim that they were enraged.
Tea dating advice, an app to help women in their dates, also has a top app on Google Play Store, where it has been downloaded more than 100,000 times.
The manufacturer of the app says it provides a measure of safety for users Traditional Dating Apps No. Tea does not match single with possible dates; Rather, it is a place for women to share information about men that they have dated. Tea allows users to check the background on potential matches, check to see if they have criminal records or sex criminals appear on the database, and more, through all the apps.
The app also ensures that the users who sign up are requesting women to submit a selfie for verification. Its purpose is to protect users against the so -called catfishing schemes, in which people make fake online personality, often as part of a plan to cheat others.
Tea refused to comment for this article.
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To ensure this, most of the features of tea are already present. Social media forums, such as Facebook group “Are we dating the same man?” Let women also let women compare notes about their dates in a community platform. Main Difference: Scale. According to its website, tea has more than 1.6 million users.
“What this app is doing is all centralizing in a very large community,” said Dug Ziteco, an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Zitco, who has studied large -scale dating app design, stated that security for most such equipment in the market has “not given priority”, which he said that tea has hit a raga with women.
He said, “Dating app safety features that exist are largely reactive. They are not about keeping people safe, but can take punitive action after something happened.”
Zytko also acknowledged some men’s concerns, voicing on forums such as Reddit, that tea users can share false information about them.
“If wrong information about a person is being shared, it damages his dating prospects and social reputation,” said Zitco. “It is scary, but this is not a reason to give a discount to the app.”
Another possible risk is a common for all social media platforms, and digital information is more widely. Tea confirmed CBS News that her app was hacked on Friday morning, with bad actors accessing a data storage system, including information, including selfie, which members uploaded before February 2024.
Additionally, hackers accessed about 60,000 images from posts, plus comments and direct messages, the company said.
The company said in a statement, “Tea has attached the third-party cyber security experts and is working around the clock to secure their system,” seeing that it is investigating the incident. “At this time, there is no evidence to suggest that additional user data was affected.”