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This is a guest post by Peter Offringa, VP of engineering at Zoosk. Zoosk is a 50 million member romantic social network.

Our members get the most rewarding experience from Zoosk when they can interact in real-time. After all, a future relationship is potentially at the other end of every connection a user makes. The excitement and richness of this situation can only be fully realized in real-time. The suite of Zoosk services facilitating these interactions are referred to by the general description of real-time communications (RTC). These communications are delivered using the XMPP protocol, which also powers other popular instant messaging products. Zoosk members experience real-time communications within three distinct interactions:


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