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From: The Washington Post

How a dating app for burrito-lovers exposed one of online dating’s biggest myths

The Washington Post:

The only conceivably good thing about branded April Fools’ pranks is that they’re confined to a 24-hour period. The press releases go out; the “jokes” get mocked and aggregated; and within a day it’s all disappeared from our minds and homepages.

But this year, one prank remains stubbornly present, almost four weeks after the day came and went. In fact, Burrit-oh! — the dating site that pairs singles based solely on their taste in portable Mexican — has proven so unexpectedly successful that maker Zoosk is thinking of keeping it.

“We all thought this was a really good idea and hoped it would take off,” said Megan Murray, the site’s senior content strategist. “But we didn’t think it would take off like this.”

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