Cupid Becomes the First Dating Site to Join Facebook's Revolutionary New Mobile Ecosystem

Cupid Becomes the First Dating Site to Join Facebook's Revolutionary New Mobile Ecosystem

EDINBURGH, October 20, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    As of Thursday 20 October 2011, intrepid as ever, Cupid.com will be the
very first online dating community to be available through the all-new
HTML5-based version of Facebook.

    With this new cutting-edge platform, known as 'Project Spartan'
throughout its long development period, Facebook has in effect created a
social ecosystem, which all of its 700+ million users can download directly
onto their iPhones and iPad devices and then use to select and run whichever
apps they choose, directly from inside Facebook.

    This result? When users download Facebook's groundbreaking platform,
they will be able to add apps that link them directly to their favourite
dating site/sites with merely the lightest touch of their fingers.

    There will be apps available for Cupid.com as well as all of its partner
sites, including:

    - girlsdateforfree.com

    - datetheuk.com

    - flirt.com

    All current members plus each new online dater will be able to add any
individual app--or even all of these new apps--to their rich, new Facebook
content platform and instantly use them with their iPhone and iPad devices.

    Each of these apps provides the best way yet of accessing and utilising
the myriad features of Cupid's extensive dating services, and now these
features can be conveniently accessed through the one place the UK spends
the majority of its time online.

    Through Cupid.com and all its partners' existing apps, users can
currently:

    - Enjoy an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly interface

    - View photos of thousands of men and women

    - Create a free, basic profile

    - Explore contacts in all major cities and countries

    - Receive messages from interested people

    - Search for singles in specific geographic locations

    - Have access to online dating when they're on the go

    Cupid.com is incredibly proud to be the very first online dating
community to make the move onto this new Facebook platform and can add it to
its steadily-growing portfolio of user-friendly apps, which include its
iPhone app [http://itunes.apple.com/bw/app/my-cupid/id435077333?mt=8 ] and
iPad app.

    What is particularly exciting for people using Apple products is that
all these apps are available for download directly through this new
content-focused version of Facebook for mobile. This means that users will
no longer need to go through iTunes to obtain and start using their online
dating app.

    The dating world had better watch out, as this combination of the
world's most popular social network and the best online dating community in
the world is going to start picking off singles by the minute.

    Since it burst onto the online dating industry scene in 2005, Cupid has
built a base of over 34 million members in 39 countries and is now a strong,
proud market leader.

Source: Cupid PLC

Contact Details ? Anastacia Miroshnichenko on behalf of Sean Wood, tel: +380684490412 (Ukraine) or email miroshnichenko@cupid.com