To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.