Whether you’re in the throes of an all-consuming love affair, or still on the hunt for the perfect match, there’s plenty of relationship and dating advice to be found on Twitter.
Here’s a rundown of the top 12 love experts and what they tweet about.
Your Tango is a New York-based online community for women, dedicated to love and relationships. The site features regular blog posts about a variety of relationship stages, from making the most of free online dating sites, through to keeping your marriage fresh. The community is pretty vocal, and a scroll down the latest tweets, or a stroll through the online forum gives an insight into the love-lives of hundreds of women.
Thomas Edwards describes himself as a ‘social strategist’. He provides personal coaching, group training sessions, and online advice on a variety of lifestyle issues, including dating and relationships. His tweets provide inspirational snippets of advice and links to useful articles. Men can pick up a few tips and tricks from Edwards, while women can get an insight into the strategies single men use.
This account, managed by Laurie Davis is all about finding love online. Laurie runs an online dating consultancy to help clients make the best first impression with their online profile, and play the online dating game with skill. Tweets provide useful tips and tricks for jazzing up your profile, making first contact and first-date ideas. Laurie is based in the US, but her consultancy has helped online daters all over the world and she tweets and writes for an international audience.
This is one for the girls, although menfolk may want to follow for a sneaky peek into the workings of the female mind. POPSUGAR Love and Sex is a website dedicated to dating, relationships and sex, with an active online community. Good for giggles, tips and some eye-opening real-life stories.
Run by native New Yorker, Melissa, this twitter and its accompanying blog is the personal views of a single media professional looking for love. Imagine Carrie Bradshaw had spent less time buying shoes and more time getting social media savvy and you’ll have a good idea of what comes out of this Twitter account.
Former couples therapist Emily V Gordon gives relationship advice which is somewhat focussed on what goes on between the sheets. She comments on everything from sexual etiquette to bedroom gymnastics.
If you want sex advice from an 85 year old lady, then head over to @askdrruth. Dr Ruth Westheimer is a world renowned psychosexual therapist offering regular lessons on YouTube, reader advice on her website and frequent tweets about sex.
Professor Debby (who really is a professor with a PhD) gives advice on kinky sex. A regular tweeter of relevant articles and her own blog posts from mysexprofessor.com.
Despite the name, this account is run by the real Dan Savage, writer of syndicated relationships column ‘Savage Love’. Savage deals with all stages of relationships, straight or gay, young or not-so-young.
Dr Emily Morse is a sex and relationships expert, with a regular podcast available on iTunes. Her latest tips include how to arrange a threesome, and keep all involved happy.
Multiple sex facts every day. Most of them quite interesting, some educational, often funny. Ideal for lazy social media readers who don’t like to bother clicking links and reading blog posts, as most messages are compacted into the 140 characters.
And don’t forget to follow us at @MatchMeHappy, the Twitter account for our free dating site, where you will find funny memes, dating tips, relationship advice, humourous blog posts.