I think the OP may be referring to a public API. I can't think of any positive practical uses for the public API as-is. In the hands of a more malicious person, it could be a tool to automate harassing users.
I havent seen a truely positive use of the API either. In fact they've had problems with it.
There was an exploit at one point that allowed you to ask the API "how far from my current position is this person" and it returned a very precise distance based on both user's gps. If you then moved your location (just the argument, no need to actually move), you could triangluate the other users exact location. Tinder fixed that by fuzzing the distance and giving less precision.
There are also apps that auto like everyone. This sort of defeats the purpose of the app. Tinder didnt seem to really mind though. They did eventually limit the number of "likes" each user can have in a day, but added a pay option ot bypass it too.
> There are also apps that auto like everyone. This sort of defeats the purpose of the app.
It's what a lot of people do anyway, though. Why not automate an action if it's the action people want? (Farming/grinding bots in MMOs, for example.) If the service doesn't like it, they can always put a stop to it by changing the incentive structure of their "game."
That is in fact the use case. One popular case was a bot that played guys off other, pretending they were taking to a different (woman) with s different pic.
