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01-14-2017, 01:06 AM
Hinge's new captions can get you twice the likes
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Captions make photos so much more fun, so it's smart that dating app Hinge has just started letting users write them on their pictures.
You can **w add both captions and locations to any of the images that are displayed interspersed with the text in your profile. (Photos from Facebook and Instagram will populate the information automatically.) It’s definitely worth spending the extra few seconds to think of something to say, since Hinge’s beta-testing found that photos with captions got two times as many likes as those that didn’t.
SEE ALSO: The most right-swiped jobs on Tinder in your city (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/right-swiped-jobs-on-tinder/)
It may **t be as splashy as Bumble’s new 10-second video feature (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/bumble-video-option/). But instead of having to master an entirely new medium, they’re a great low-key way to add a little more of your voice and personality where it counts. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/hinge-adds-photo-captions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Captions make photos so much more fun, so it's smart that dating app Hinge has just started letting users write them on their pictures.
You can **w add both captions and locations to any of the images that are displayed interspersed with the text in your profile. (Photos from Facebook and Instagram will populate the information automatically.) It’s definitely worth spending the extra few seconds to think of something to say, since Hinge’s beta-testing found that photos with captions got two times as many likes as those that didn’t.
SEE ALSO: The most right-swiped jobs on Tinder in your city (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/right-swiped-jobs-on-tinder/)
It may **t be as splashy as Bumble’s new 10-second video feature (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/bumble-video-option/). But instead of having to master an entirely new medium, they’re a great low-key way to add a little more of your voice and personality where it counts. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/hinge-adds-photo-captions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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