Someone hacked Tinder causing straight bros to flirt with each other.

Ever get those random people on dating sites that filled the info out wrong?  I've run into women on sites like plentyoffish.com that had put in their bio incorrectly that they were males looking for males. After explaining a couple of times that it would not work out between us because a) you're a woman and b) you're pretty stupid if you cannot get your bio correct, they went on their way ( I didn't tell them part b ). 

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Someone recently decided to turn up the heat on Tinder and cause a little gender confusion. 

… over the last few weeks, a California-based computer engineer — we’ll call him Patrick — has pitted heterosexual male against heterosexual male. Patrick’s program identifies two men who "like" one of his bait profiles (the first used prominent vlogger Boxxy's image; the second used an acquaintance who had given Patrick consent) and matched them to each other. The suitors’ messages — some aggressive, others mundane, but all of them unabashedly flirtatious — are then relayed, back and forth, to one another through the dummy profile. – TheVerge.com

Besides being a practical joke, why would someone want to do this?

Patrick was a Tinder user (in fact, it's where he met his current girlfriend) and says that female friends of his would often complain about the messages they received on Tinder. "The original idea was to throw that back into the face of the people doing it to see how they would react." Initially, he set out to build a Twitter bot that tweeted every first message a female friend received … – TheVerge.com

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