Full general facts about Microworkers and Crowdtask

Crowdtask is a United states of america-based platform which connects the „worker" (people who acquit out micro tasks) and the „employer" (people who put the micro tasks on the platform). It seems there is another parallel platform chosen www.microworkers.com which has the same headquarter/company proper name (Weblabcenter Inc.) and the same web content equally crowdtask.com. The person behind the platform is Nhatvi Nguyen who founded microworkers.com in 2010. In connection with this person the platform http://microtoilers.com/ was found. It is likewise a microjob platform simply was closed in June 2015.

Equally the registration on crowdtasks.com is currently closed the evaluation was continued for the platform world wide web.microworkers.com. This platform went into the Beta test phase in the middle of 2013 after information technology was redesigned completely.

The Microworkers procedure

    1. New tasks are put in as campaigns. The campaign can as well exist created by a normal Worker member. For this, commencement the countries of the workers (Targeting), then the categories of the tasks are chosen. These are east.one thousand.:
        • „Search, Click, and Appoint"
        • Bookmark a page (digg, Delicious, Buzz,…)
        • Google (+1), Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat promotion
        • Yahoo Answers/Answebag/Quora/Wikians
        • Forums
        • Download
        • Install
        • Comment on Other Blogs
        • Write an honest review (Service, Product)
        • Write an Article
        • Mobile Applications (iPhone & Android)
        • Weblog/Website Owners
        • Leads
        • Surveys
        • Testing
        • Other

      Further parameter like paying out, expenditure of fourth dimension and number of persons have to be given.
      From the parameter it is calculated how much the purchaser has to pay for the campaign.

    2. New tasks for the workers are shown on the web surface. The worker chooses by criteria, payment, and fourth dimension expenditure and finds a detailed job description. For most tasks a proof is needed to prove that the task is completed (e.chiliad. code, text file upload, forum username etc.)
      The collected data on the completion of the task are made bachelor for the purchaser. The purchaser tin can decide the borderline for the proof of the completion.
    3. After the quality check of the completed task past the purchaser and subsequently reaching at to the lowest degree 9 USD on the account the Worker tin utilize for paying out. The paying out is via PayPal or Moneybookers. The Worker tin can just apply for paying out when a PIN is given. This Pivot is send to the Worker by postal service.
    4. The data is transferred to the purchaser soon but the verbal way could not be plant out. Anyhow, the results or the tasks can be checked on the spider web interface. There is no divide report.

Microworkers website screenshots

A screenshot of the Microworker website

A screenshot of the Microworker website

Microworkers information usage range and spreading

Exact user numbers could not exist found. Equally crowdtasks.com has only few information, we looked further into microworkers.com. Hither the Facebook fans are ~ 29K and the Twitter follower are ~ 2K. On the startpage it says there are 700.000 MicroWorkers worldwide. The number of active Workers is non attestable.

Microworkers strength and weaknesses

Microworkers forcefulness

  • Own API for automation available and well documented
  • Microworkers.com is responsive.

Microworkers weaknesses

  • Programming error makes the parallel developed platform microtoilers.com visible without login (see http://microtoilers.com/jobs.php?sort=cost)
  • PIN delivery via post is complicated and many users never got a Pivot.
  • No mobile App available.
  • No commitment or level for Workers.

Personal evaluation of Microworkers

The platform Microworkers has a modernistic startpage. The residue of the websites behind information technology are non designed modern. Still, the platform is designed responsively.

The platform crowdtask.com seems quite mod. Unfortunately, the examination could not be continued every bit the registration on the platform has been deactivated.

The platform Microworkers is constantly developed further. In the Microworker blog there are regular articles on new features and updates. At that place seems to exist no e-mail newsletter as I did not receive one.

The payment of the tasks is always under ane USD. The highest payment is for forum posts. More often than not, the payment is quite poor. Tasks are mostly posting in Social Media by influencers (high Klout Score, loftier number of Twitter follower/Facebook friends) or simple user registration.

Afterward farther investigation in Microworkers some negative feedback was found, some spoke of SCAM. Very often the Workers did non get the necessary PIN for the paying out.

Have y'all already tried Crowdtask and/or Microworkers? Let us know nearly your experience in the comments.