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Can you elaborate a bit more on the MT strategies? I have used it in the past to create survey data the quick way, but ho do you use it for traffic?

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It's really as easy as creating a HIT(? been a while but I think that's what they're called) that says "Beta test this website/app/game" for $0.05. You will probably get a lot of feedback that you didn't expect, even if you don't ask for it.

You can get more sophisticated if you want, but that's all I did. I ended up getting around 4000 seed users for a Facebook app I built in '08 this way.

I agree that this can work. However, they are very strict about collecting any sort of personal data from the MT workers. Thus you may end up not having any stick from this because you cant ask them for an email. Cellis, how did you get around this?

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