Maybe you could also consider remembering the values you last selected in the search area. It seems to always come back to "Aged between 20 and 35" and those seem pretty arbitrary numbers
Good call. There is some bugginess related to Twitter accounts being deleted, or Twitter nicknames being changed, and having that reflected on Plenty of Tweeps.
Several months back, I asked HN to review my Twitter dating startup, Plenty of Tweeps, and got loads of useful, and mostly positive feedback.
I have since put the site through a total redesign, significantly changed the way you signal interest in Twitter users, and implemented a payment model.
I would really appreciate your feedback on the new version of the site. Radical honesty welcome. ;)
It might be a good idea to add somewhere if signing up will make it obvious that you are a member.
(E.g. by signing up does it become obvious to everyone on Twitter that you are single? Just to other people who use the site? Just to people who are logged in? Can your membership be indexed by google?)
Also, almost everyone in your 'our users' list is male. That's probably representative but you might want to change it to display a 50:50 mix.
Good point in linkifying city names. (There and other places, probably.)
Sticking exclusively with Twitter for now, though may consider making it easy for non-Twitter users to jump right in too (like Zoosk makes it easy to join without using FB.)
Wow, great feedback, thanks csytan! And I think you just gave me an idea for what to do about those 3 navbar buttons before the user has logged.
Marketing it organically right now. Talking to bloggers, gradually spreading our PageRank wings, etc. Have experimented with some paid advertising, but it's pretty expensive for a dating site.
