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#2015bestnine: Instagram Collaging “Service” Was A Trojan Horse For A Dating App

by Lainey
February 2, 2016
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Uh oh! If you posted your #2015bestnine on Instagram last year, you could be part of a new dating app.

Remember when, over the last few weeks of 2015, your friends (or perhaps you including) were flooding Instagram with a grid of 9 most-like Instagram pictures? You know, the one with the 3-image-by-3-image collages via 2015bestnine.com?

Whatever happened over this past year, be thankful 4 where it brought you.Where you are is where you're meant to be pic.twitter.com/YhZeH74BoD

— Kourtney Kardashian (@kourtneykardash) December 28, 2015

Well, it seems that it could be a trojan horse. What’s a “trojan horse”, you ask?

A trojan horse (or simply, trojan) in computing is any malicious computer program which misrepresents itself to appear useful, routine, or interesting in order to persuade a victim to install it. In not so many words, you’ve been duped.

All 15 million of you on Instagram. Including Kourtney Kardashian.

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First reported by BuzzFeed News, the same service that provided the #2015bestnine Instagram collage now thinks that Instagram users can use those 9 photos to find a hot date. This is because the company behind it depended on #2015bestnine to go viral to drive the number of early sign-ups to a new dating app called Nine.

The 3-image-by-3-image collages that people posted on Instagram turned out to be Nine’s profile pictures. And the Tinder-style dating app proudly identifies itself as a way to help people meet other “interesting Instagrammers”.

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Co-founder Yusuke Matsumura told BuzzFeed that the power of those grids is how they show off more of a person’s character and personality than the usual headshots we swipe left and right on. Which is great, but Nine’s method of getting people’s information might be a major turn-off for some users.

Still interested in this whole “best nine” thing? Get the Nine app via the App Store.

Sources: engadget, Macworld, BuzzFeed News.

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