Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) | Worldwide
Job Description
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing website for businesses to hire remotely located “crowd workers” to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do. It is operated under Amazon Web Services and is owned by Amazon
Becoming a member at Mturk is very easy. You simply need to register an account either as a requestor or a worker. Once the account is registered, it needs to be verified by Amazon. If Amazon finds your account a perfect fit, it approves them. However, it rejects in other cases.
Amazon Mechanical Turk is best known for providing its workers an opportunity to perform straightforward micro-jobs that can be completed within a few minutes. The workers get paid handsomely.
What type of work is available on Amazon Mechanical Turk?
- Image/Video Processing
- Data Verification and Clean-up
- Information Gathering
- Data Processing