Meta NPE Team’s Sparked Video Speed Dating App Fizzles Out

It will shutter Jan. 20

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Meta’s New Product Experimentation team has lost its loving feeling for Sparked, the video speed dating application it began testing last April.

People testing the app received an email alerting them of its impending shutdown Jan. 20 and saying they will be able to download their information from the app’s website, but all accounts will be deleted.

The email read, in part, “We started building Sparked in late 2020 to help people find love through an experience rooted in kindness.

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