(MENLO PARK, Calif.) — Some online daters had a little more trouble swiping right than normal earlier this week.

On Wednesday, hours after Facebook announced plans to restrict some data access by third-party apps, some Tinder users noticed problems with the app.

Tinder did not specify the reason for the outage in a statement to ABC News, citing only a “technical issue” and saying that the company “found a resolution and quickly resumed service.”

But it appears Facebook new policies may be to blame. Scott Steinberg, a trends expert for consulting firm TechSavvy, told ABC News that the problem was likely connected to the tightening of restrictions previously announced by Facebook.

He likened the previous flow of data from Facebook to certain third-party apps to “a pipeline of information that’s been flowing.” When that pipeline gets shut, “then it can create technical hiccups for apps that rely on the data.”

“Platforms like Facebook are taking more steps to protect the sanctity of users’ personal data,” Steinberg said, adding that individual users are likely not going to be dramatically impacted by changes.

“What happens is, from the developer perspective, it’s harder for them to pull information than it was in the past,” Steinberg said.

Tinder, like many apps, allows users to sign up using their Facebook accounts. In turn, the user agrees to allow the third-party app — in this case, Tinder — to take information off their Facebook profile and add it to their Tinder profile.

As a result, the user’s interests, including brands they may have favorited or public figures they’ve professed to being a fan of, will show up as their “interests” on their Tinder profile — in theory, allowing potential love matches to connect over common bonds.

In contrast, other apps take less information. A representative for Bumble, a similar online dating app, told ABC News that the company only uses the publicly available information from Facebook users’ profiles, including their names, profile pictures, and whatever school or employer the Facebook user features.

The representative said that because Bumble only relies on the public-facing portions of a profile, the app was not affected by the new Facebook changes.

That isn’t to say that yet-unaffected apps won’t be making changes in the coming weeks and months. Both Bumble and Hinge, another dating app, told ABC News that they are developing log-in options that will allow people to sign on to their apps apart from their Facebook accounts. As of now, the only way that people can sign up for their apps is by verifying themselves through Facebook.

The Facebook changes will apply to any number of third-party apps, not just ones dedicated to finding love in the digital age. Venmo, the popular digital wallet app that helps people share and request funds from friends, did not have a comment for ABC News at this time.

Steinberg said logins separate from Facebook are not the only ways that apps will have to change to adapt to the social network’s changes.

“I think what you’re going to see is more and more apps trying to get creative with ways to access information … that once they might have had much freer access to,” he said, citing interests or friends that some apps were able to access through Facebook data previously.

Beth Loyd, who runs Facebook’s broadcast news partnerships, and Josh Mabry, who oversees the Journalism Project’s local news initiatives, explained to a roomful of digital media publishers gathered at today’s NAB Show what January’s Facebook Newsfeed changes will mean to their content.

The changes, Loyd said, are “very much a refocus for our entire company.”

Many in the room had concerns about their news content being pushed down or out of users’ newsfeeds, leading to a decrease in traffic at best and dissolution at worst. Publisher Little Things, which relied heavily on the algorithm, shut down in February.

The Facebook Newsfeed launched in 2006. Among its “values,” which Facebook codified in 2016, was “Friends and Family First.”

Loyd noted that Facebook’s own traffic is taking a hit. “We do expect overal time spent will go down,” she said.

The 40-minute presentation during Sunday’s session of the NAB Show in Las Vegas also provided solutions and re-iterated best practices for publishers, including:

Engagement bait includes stories that aggressively ask viewers to vote, react or share. “Those posts will get demoted,” said Loyd, adding that advice, help and recommendation posts “are not adversely impacted.”

Loyd concluded her presentation by talking about the importance of Facebook Live and Facebook Watch. “We’re at NAB, and we can’t get by without talking about video,” said the veteran ABC News producer, who joined Facebook in 2014. Publishers are seeing four times more growth in daily watch time on Facebook Live than other Facebook video platforms, she said—and those posts get ten times as many comments as regular videos.

“Engaging, one-off viral videos have always done great in the Newsfeed, and will continue to do so,” she said.

One of the things Mabry and Loyd did not talk about in their presentation was the improper access of up to 87 million Facebook users’ personal information. “There’s a lot of stuff we’re not going to cover today,” said Mabry. “We’re going to stay focused on news and our roles.”

“Leadership will be in D.C. this week and there will be a lot of news there,” he added.

Google Assistant is available on a host of different devices, both smartphones and tablets alike, but as of today Mountain View’s own Pixel C has finally been given the go-ahead for support. The report comes from 9to5 Google, which notes that although the artificial intelligence-aided search assistant responds to voice or type as per usual, there is a curious omission of the Lens feature, which makes use of a device’s camera to provide a visual alternative to traditional search-input methods.

The Pixel C tablet released in December of 2015 and has since been discontinued as of December 2017. The device represented what was – at the time – a curious naming convention for it made use of the Pixel moniker – something that had previously been reserved exclusively for Google’s home-made, high-end Chromebooks. 2015 also saw the launch of both the Nexus 6P and the Nexus 5X, which made the situation all the more confusing, and it was rumored at the time, that Google might have been seeking to merge Android and Chromebooks into a single OS. It was not until the following year – 2016 – that the Pixel name would be used for smartphones and other devices by the company. To this day it remains unclear as to if Google was actually planning to merge the two different OS platforms or if the Pixel C tablet was an attempt to increase market awareness of the brand name in and of itself, to better insulate 2016’s phones from their lack of Nexus naming.

The Pixel C also represents what would appear to be the conclusion of Google’s Android tablet ventures, which also saw the HTC Nexus 9, Samsung Nexus 10, and two years of ASUS-made Nexus 7 devices. No new device was announced last year or the year prior, with instead 2017 seeing an update to the Chromebook line instead. Indeed now that Chrome OS supports Android applications, there is seemingly less need for a stand-alone Android tablet, especially as high-end Android tablet support has all but stopped from OEMs, and tablet sales, on the whole, continue to decrease due to the ever-expansive nature of smartphone screens. While there are certainly enough big-screen device fans who continue to pine for Google’s releasing a new tablet, the chances of such a product making a debut at the upcoming I/O 2018 event, or even this year’s presumed Pixel product event later this year are quite slim.