Grindr Dating App Crashes in Milwaukee During RNC: Everything We Know
Grindr – was reportedly in the Milwaukee air this week while the Republican National Convention was in town.Over 1,000 users reported a Grindr outage in the Milwaukee area around 4 p.m.
on Tuesday, according to Downdetector, a website that collects online service status information.The Grindr app also allegedly experienced problems in the Cream City on Thursday— the fourth and final day of the RNC — as well as in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
However, Grindr's official status updates show there hasn't been an outage since May.Nevertheless, a Grindr user who did not want to be identified told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he noticed an influx of anonymous users this week."On any given day, you'll go on there and see a headless torso or blank profile," the man told the outlet Thursday.The source explained that a headless photo on someone's Grindr profile usually means the person is looking for a fling and not a relationship.
On a normal day, the Grindr user said he usually comes across around 10 users who don't show their face, but claimed he stopped counting at 50 anonymous profiles when he checked the app Thursday.Newsweek has contacted Grindr for comment but has not heard back.The buzz surrounding allegedly increased Grindr traffic in Milwaukee rapidly spread on social media.
