Bumble was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd shortly after she left Tinder.
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19 Facts About Bumble
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In March 2016, Bumble released BFF mode as a way for users to find platonic friends.
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Bumble was listed on the Nasdaq exchange, with shares initially valued at $43 but increasing to $76 on its opening day, valuing the company at more than $13 billion.
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In February 2022, Bumble announced it had acquired Fruitz - a French-owned freemium dating app popular with Gen Z and used across Europe.
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Formerly, Bumble users were required to log in via Facebook when signing up.
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In 2018, The Daily Dot criticized Bumble for lacking options for users to identify as genderqueer or transgender, in contrast to competitors OkCupid and Tinder.
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Bumble released a "backtrack" feature in 2015 that allows users to undo accidental left swipes by shaking their phones.
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Bumble launched a photo verification tool in September 2016 to ensure that users of the app were the same people in their profile pictures.
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Bumble was the first dating app to include photo verification in the US.
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In 2020, Bumble announced that the users can now expand their distance filters to match with anyone in the country.
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Bumble had a reported 40 million users as of February 2021, and 27 million downloads as of February 2018.
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Bumble has reported that its users spend an average of 62 minutes on the app daily.
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Bumble has been criticized for not offering to refund purchases, even those made by mistake.
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Bumble was sued for not offering refunds of purchases, despite offering a cancel button.
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On January 15,2021, Bumble temporarily suspended the option to filter matches by political preference in order to "prevent misuse".
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The move came after several women allegedly used Bumble to gather information from people who had stormed the United States Capitol, then forwarded that information to the FBI.
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Bumble was criticized by many of its users for being perceived to "protect terrorists" by suspending the filter.
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Bumble announced that it would be reinstating the option to filter by political preferences later that day.
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