Couple who fell in love after meeting on Twitter are now engaged

It’s a digital love story

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A couple has announced their engagement four years after meeting on Twitter.

Torey Stachowicz is a personal trainer from Cleveland, Ohio.

In 2014 she decided make the courageous move of publicly asking Ben Axelrod, a digital producer and sports writer, out on a date via Twitter.

She tweeted: “I want to go on a date with @BenAxelrod”, to which he replied: “@toreydanae you buying?”

Stachowicz agreed that she would pay for the date, with Axelrod requesting that they go to eat somewhere that serves chicken fingers.

Fast forward four years and what began as a sweet digital courtship has now escalated into a fully fledged fairytale romance.

Copying Stachowicz’s original message, yesterday Axelrod tweeted: “I want to marry @toreydanae”.

He then shared a photo of the moment he went down on one knee to ask for his girlfriend’s hand in marriage.

Axelrod’s tweet has received over 12,000 likes, with someone describing it as a “Twitter love story”.

“I’m shutting down for the night because I won’t find a better tweet than this,” one person wrote. “Go out on a high note. Congrats!”

Another commented on the way in which dating has evolved over time, writing: “Lmfao 2018 romance is something else.”

According to a book published last year by Jean Twenge, psychology professor at San Diego State University, teens are supposedly becoming less interested in dating due to more time spent socialising online.

Professor Twenge found that 56 per cent of 14 to 18-year-olds went out on dates in 2015, in comparison to 85 per cent of Generation X and Baby Boomers when they were the same age.

However, Stachowicz and Axelrod are proof that perusing social media could be the key to finding love.

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