TikTok adds Campus Hub feature for U.S. college students

The new display allows verified attendees at more than 6,000 universities to connect to dedicated group chats and content feeds.

The new display allows verified attendees at more than 6,000 universities to connect to dedicated group chats and content feeds.
The platformβs B2B marketing and artificial intelligence-powered recruiter tools helped drive business, while paid video posts grew nearly 30% year over year
The company will allow external providers to plug data into another system, such as Claude or ChatGPT, without using API setups or developer credentials.
The company said the update is the biggest ad system refresh in its history, adding the latest xAI models to help improve targeting and performance.
The platform said the experiment is designed to improve the impact of header images in order to better conform to different device configurations.
The app said it will no longer recommend photos and carousel posts from aggregator accounts and profiles that focus on re-posting.
The Instagram and Facebook owner saw its first decline in daily active usage ever, which it claims is due to new restrictions in some regions.
The U.S. Department of Justice reported that the social media giant was among several groups that contributed to the international operation.

The research underlines a growing body of evidence showing the platform has become more politically contentious since the change from Twitter.
A new short-form video creation app called Divine offers an open-source, artificial intelligence-free platform with an archive of more than 500,000 restored Vines.
The update allows subscribers to watch up to four streams at a time on a single screen, and works on most living room and mobile devices.

Preliminary findings indicate the company was unable to prevent children under the age of 13 from accessing Facebook and Instagram.
New policies reflect advertiser feedback and include restrictions around cost breakdown and campaign tool usage.
Unusual venues, offbeat cakes and nostalgic tech were among the most popular search trends for marriage-minded users.
A new study from Meta found that behaviors such as βdigital pebblingβ are prevalent across every generation, and expert knowledge matters more than fame.
The conversational query tool is currently available to Premium subscribers and offers more interactive results for user queries.