Twitter Slammed For Low-Paid 'Human Data Analysts' - But Are Critics MisInformed?
Have you heard about how Twitter search works? They employee real-live people to analyze, categorize and just overall make sense of tweet data. And the folks who perform this “human data analysis” are found on a site called Mechanical Turk.
According to some sources, these workers MUST be low paid – and correspondingly, exploited somehow. But we think these critics may be misinformed.
If you saw the post on Business Insider today, the headline screams (subliminally) “Twitter is evil.”
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