This is vital because around 20 per cent of Turkers say that they always or sometimes need money earned during crowd work to make ends meet, according to a small survey carried out by Irani. (newscientist.com)
FAST COMPANY - Feb 1 - Lauren McCarthy, an artist and programmer is currently beta - testing Social Turkers. (onlinepersonalswatch.com)
This data reportedly included information siphoned from hundreds of thousands of Amazon Mechanical Turkers who were paid to use a «personality prediction app» that collected data from them and also anyone they were friends with — about 50 million accounts. (engadget.com)