A crowdsourcing system that works purely through existing social media platforms

What is it about?

This paper is about a crowdsourcing system that dynamically spins up tasks in real-time as important topics emerge on social media and also uses social media to interact with the crowd.

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Why is it important?

Some problems for which crowdsourcing may be a promising solution are not suited to be run on tailored crowdsourcing platforms. Examples include real-time disaster response or fact checking. To roll out a task on a crowdsourcing platform is simply to lazy to yield any results at the time when these are needed. The system presented in this paper seeks to overcome this by directly interacting with the crowd on social media and automatically generating tasks on the fly.