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BeReal adding Spotify integration, enabling users to share favourite songs

French social media app BeReal is said to be developing its own Spotify integrations. The platform has been steadily gaining more attention, attracting a larger audience. It appears as though users will soon be able to share their favourite songs with followers.

For the uninitiated, BeReal enables users to capture and share a photo every day at a different time. It’s designed to encourage users to share authentic moments with friends and followers, given the small window of opportunity. Now, it’s been discovered that users will be able to add music via Spotify alongside sharing a selfie or a photo.

Developer and app analyst Alessandro Paluzzi discovered this work-in-progress. As it’s been shared, BeReal’s music integration allows users to share a song from Spotify with their followers when posting their picture within the allotted window. It’s believed that the feature will launch for both iOS and Android.

On top of music, users can share podcasts when creating content for the platform. BeReal is said to be able to automatically detect when a song or podcast is being listened to. A link to navigate to the content within Spotify is also shared. The app also displays a message reading, “Listen to music or podcasts when you take your BeReal to share it with your friends.”

At the time of writing, it’s unclear when BeReal’s integration of Spotify will be available to all users.

Hive intended to integrate Spotify into its core social platform. Harkening back to the days of MySpace, an option to link their Spotify account to Hive was once active. However, since shutting down its servers as a result of a security issue, this no longer seems possible.

Header image credit: BeReal

Source: Alessandro Paluzzi via 9to5Mac

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Instagram rolls out BeReal like feature called Candid Stories

Instagram has introduced “Candid Stories” in its latest update, taking a note from BeReal’s book.

Candid allows users to take a picture of what they’re doing at a given time to share with their friends, much like BeReal, which asks its users to share a photo of themselves at the same time every day.

Instagram users can also capture a candid image at the same time daily, with reminders shared through notifications that start after sharing the first candid. Users can also test the feature through the stories camera or the multi-author story.

The Meta-owned company says they’re testing a similar feature for Facebook Stories.

Instagram’s update also introduces “Notes,” 60-character posts that users can share with selected friends for a 24-hour period. Replies to the notes appear as DMs.

“From asking for recommendations to sharing what they’re up to, Notes give people a casual and spontaneous way to express themselves and connect with each other,” Instagram wrote in a blog post.

Instagram will also soon roll out other new features, such as “Group Profiles.” Here, users can create shared profiles to send posts and stories.

Source: Instagram