Tinder has stopped working because of Facebook

The scandal of the leaking of 87 million Facebook accounts is having consequences beyond the limits of Mark Zuckerberg's social network. Now Tinder users have noticed it If you regularly access this famous dating application, it is possible that in the last few hours you have not been able to connect. But why?

The reason why a good portion of Tinder users cannot connect to the application has to do directly with the new protection measures that Facebook is implementing Whose objective is to prevent further inappropriate leaks from taking place through third-party apps.

In recent days, Facebook has been incorporating various security and privacy improvements and updates into its systems. In fact, there have been some major changes to some of its more prominent APIs. One of the most important measures? The restrictions applied to developers.

Some users can't connect to Tinder

Users noticed they couldn't connect to Tinder. In fact, a large part of them have discussed the problem through social networks such as Twitter. It seems that those affected have only been those users who were connected to Tinder through his Facebook account.

It is a gesture, that of logging in through Facebook, that we all perform very often with other applications. It is useful to avoid us having to enter all our personal data over and over again to register.

But in this case, convenience has become a disadvantage. Users trying to access their Tinder account normally found themselves stuck in a loop, initially linked to unknown bug After learning to link accounts to Facebook you have to have new permits, the mystery would have been solved. Even so, users are still unable to access the dating application.

FIX YOUR APP IM THIRSTY @Tinder pic.twitter.com/7zlhCHgLhm

- kelsey (@keIseyrose) April 4, 2018

A looping error message

Users who are trying to access Tinder after Facebook has applied changes and restrictions have been denied access to the tool.Thus, a message has appeared indicating that new permissions are required in order to gain access. After this error in a loop, Tinder users have been left without entering and without carrying out any type of management within their accounts

The only option that they have been given (and that you can see in the screenshot of this Twitter and Tinder user) is to click on Ask Me or PreguntarmeHitting Continue would cause the system to go into a loop, so users couldn't log in at all.

And we're back! Apologies for the inconvenience. We missed you too. ? pic.twitter.com/796L1gLsCv

- Tinder (@Tinder) April 4, 2018

Luckily, users who want to access Tinder – and do so having signed up with a Facebook account – will be able to do so without any problems. Because those responsible for Tinder have tweeted that they are back.So in principle the bug has been resolved

Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's CTO, has also given explanations in this regard. The person in charge has explained that as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a series of changes are being carried out. He has said thatFacebook will have to re-grant permissions to applications that request accessto user data. This includes, for example, information about likes, posts, videos, events, and groups users are a part of.