I would not work on those if I were you... That looks like something shady that the government would be sponsoring to make sure that people are not stepping out of line....twitter censorship and what-not...
Short Scientific Survey - Decisions-making on Crowdfunding Websites Requester: Dennis Steininger Expected Time: 10 Minutes Reward: $0.35 Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=crowdfunding&minReward=0.00&x=0&y=0
w00t, 524 words with 2 minutes to spare! everyone's gonna know about your dirty little secret, cameron diaz! *crunch crunch crunch burp*
no problem! also for anyone doing these, don't forget to hide the instructions so you don't have to wade through those with every HIT, I found that out almost halfway through the last time lol
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A1H0Y78D43ALW3 Magazine advertisements, visualization, & your opinion: 10 to 14 min study Requester: Idea Lab LA Reward: $1.00 per HIT
i managed it, at the last minute. and i see the count is back up to around 12 lol, don't think people are having a good time with these... when i finish this transcription i'm doing i may grab another one. i think celebrity articles tend to be on the short side, even this one, because of the quotes, ended up rambling semi-unrelatedly towards the end, so i added a paragraph or two of original content in the middle and the end. oh well. matchett's approved everything i've done so far... so far...
It does sound shady, but from the description and my research Johns Hopkins is "investigating ways to automatically extract opinion from social media sites." Simply judging sentiment, no different from the CrowdFlower hits.