On tinder yesterday and matched to a solid HB8.5. Her bio stated,"thanks for thinking I'm a bot, makes this comforting and convenient" something along those lines.

Conversation goes as follows:

ME: hey there bot girl, lol
HER (next day):
ME: just trying to make things comforting and convenient. Your too cute to be a bot.

I check her bio again and it says "leg warmers on"

So I message like 2 hours later and she's still active

ME: I need some help here, what a good opener about leg warmers, that's not creepy or perverted?
HER: lol
ME: great, now that I've got you laughing, how do I get you talking
Her: do u have KiK me app?
ME: I don't, but if you ask nicely I might give you my number ... Might
HER: forget it, I don't give my number to strangers

Before I can respond with anything at all, I mean barely read the sentence, the screen goes blank, and her match is gone.

1) Did I do anything that stands out as to why she freaked so suddenly? At first she was responding 10-20 hours in toward the end it was rapid fire (I know not a lot of exchange to begin with but a huge improvement in her response time)

2) Are texting apps that important to online dating sites/apps?

I don't do text apps, but at the same time there are women that I have not been able to seduce because I refuse. My reasoning behind it is that women are putting me in the same box that they are putting all of the other men that are trying for their attention. Give me a phone number and I'll call to set up a day that we can meet up.

Again, I probably miss out on women because of this. At the same time I'm not experiencing a shortage of women in my life.

To answer your first question, you didn't do anything wrong. You got her talking.

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I'm behind the curve in online stuff because I just don't do it often but my opinion is that if a girl is asking for KIK then she's either fake and giving out KIK because it's not nearly as traceable as a number, or using KIK because she just wants a bunch of guys to talk too but not to actually meet up with them.

If a girl is attracted to you and you made a good impression, she'll give up the digits.

Girl wasn't interested from the get-go... You got cold, delayed replies. Not really sure you did a whole lot wrong, though.
I've never needed them. I've got What's App - but that's the same as texting... Something like KIK or another one of those freebie texter apps is for people who don't have text plans and need to use data/wifi to send messages instead of TXT.

It's not a huge loss. It's not like the conversation was super engaging with this girl anyway.

Tinder is all about looks, if the girl thinks you're cute or hot, you only need 2-3 messages to get her number. You don't have to be super funny or witty just direct.

You did nothing wrong and she saved you time.

No to texting apps. Get the girl's # or arrange a meetup from the initial app you met her on.

Don't waste another second her.

I get the feeling if you broke the ice on the 1st message that she could of been interested but you were 3/4 messages in by that point that depletes you of man points

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