[taneem]

Title is incorrect. This is not on Mechanical Turk. Tasks like this are not allowed on MTurk as per TOS. The original tweet author says so on the thread.

[maxheadroom]

Correct, the immediate reply from the author was:

>heads up that this is NOT from @amazonmturk! black hat SEO/shady reputation management techniques like this are strictly against amzn's policy. this is from a competing micro task site

The title makes it seem like intentional click-bait, given this.

[wnevets]

or its just another kleenex situation.

[reaperducer]

I didn't read it as being part of MTurk. "Mechanical turk" was a thing for hundreds of years before Amazon named it's service.

[tomnipotent]

> "Mechanical turk" was a thing for hundreds of years before Amazon named it's service.

In the context of crowdsourced labor, it absolutely implies Amazon.

[LocalH]

The title as presented on HN says "Mechanical Turk", not "mechanical turk".