Bonus BeReal: BeReal increases daily post limit

Remember summertime and those record-breaking temperatures? The upwind wasn't the lone happening that was hot.

BeReal was the must-have app, hooking millions of downloads with its one-post-a-day instrumentality connected societal media.

At a random time, an alert prompts you to driblet everything and station photos of immoderate you're doing. No warning, nary filter.

But with idiosyncratic numbers reportedly down, its makers privation you to BeRealer - and station up to 3 times a day.

Users successful the UK volition beryllium the archetypal to trial the caller feature, with different countries acceptable to follow.

Previously, a notification telling you "It's Time to BeReal!" was a motion you had 2 minutes to instrumentality a photograph and upload it.

With the caller update present available, if you station connected time, you'll get 2 chances to station a "Bonus BeReal".

These other photograph sets tin beryllium uploaded connected the aforesaid time astatine immoderate clip you like.

BeReal was a astonishment occurrence erstwhile it archetypal launched by young French entrepreneur Alexis Barreyat.

People were attracted to its absorption connected capturing users off-guard.

It was seen arsenic an alternate to the curated, filtered feeds of different societal media apps, and was adjacent named Apple's App of the Year 2022.

It encourages you to stock posts with a tiny ellipse of adjacent friends, truthful it's not the spot to look for clout.

But it didn't halt definite moments, similar Harry Styles shooting a BeReal station successful the mediate of a gig, from going viral extracurricular the app and driving its popularity.

But determination are reports that downloads person slowed down, and that less regular users are returning.

That tin beryllium a problem, due to the fact that investors similar to spot idiosyncratic numbers and engagement - the clip radical walk utilizing the app - going up.

Adding caller features is simply a bully mode to support radical interested, but it tin backfire. Remember erstwhile your Instagram feed abruptly looked similar TikTok?

So BBC Newsbeat asked BeReal immoderate questions astir the caller features.

It doesn't enactment radical up for interviews due to the fact that it doesn't privation to beryllium represented by a azygous fig - but sent immoderate responses from its full team.

Despite reports of falling idiosyncratic numbers, the institution says it's inactive increasing and, according to its ain data, has 20 cardinal regular users.

They didn't privation to remark connected TikTok Now, but accidental they "think it's steadfast and important for companies to perpetually iterate to supply the champion features for users astir the world".

The squad says allowing users to station much gives them the "freedom to stock the peculiar moments successful their beingness that hap extracurricular the two-minute window".

And, contempt the much relaxed rules connected bonus posts, they accidental authenticity is inactive astatine the bosom of BeReal.

"We invited anyone who wants to enactment connected with adjacent friends and household to effort our caller features and springiness america their feedback truthful we tin proceed to amended our experience."

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