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'Un-famous' Twitter users can make money from tweets gone viral with just a reply

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iStock Twitter users glommed onto an inventive way to harness the power of tweets that go viral to make a few bucks for themselves. A growing number of  Twitter  users –- many of them with very few followers of their own -- have glommed onto an inventive way to harness the power of tweets that go viral to make a few bucks for themselves. These savvy users do this first by finding a tweet that’s garnering a lot of attention. They then use the reply tool to point the Twitterverse toward a brand, which, in turn, pays a small fee in exchange for the mention. None of this happens through Twitter’s established advertising system, meaning the company doesn’t get a cut of the transaction, and it may break Twitter Inc.’s rules requiring disclosure of payment for promotion. Here’s how it plays out for Blake Forbes. The 20-year-old college student from Austin, Minnesota, runs the Twitter account @BirdExecutive. It only has about 8,000 followers. That’s paltry compared with the likes of J...

Intel’s wireless driver for Windows 10 gets a huge update

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If drivers become corrupted or out of date, problems can arise, especially after Windows 10 feature updates. This could lead to crashes and stability issues because driver is a piece of software that allows Windows 10 components to work together and be recognised by peripheral. Intel is now rolling out a new wireless driver update for Windows 10 to fix system crashes and improve performance of your system as well as the wireless connection. Intel Wi-Fi driver version 21.120.0 update was released this week, but it won’t immediately show up for everyone; Intel is also taking its usual gradual approach to rolling out the updated driver. Based on the feedback from users, Intel will throttle the release of Wi-Fi driver version 21.120.0, 20.70.18.2 or 19.51.30.1. Also, it is worth noting that this update is being rolled out to select wireless adapters only, such as AX-20x. Here’s the complete list of the supported adapters: Wireless-AC 95602 Wireless-AC 94622 Wireless-AC 94612 Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+)...