[Air-L] Facebook and Twitter user recruitment?

[Peter Timusk]

What about phone books? Online digital lists of real people must be fairly easy to find? Voters lists are sometimes open. In Canada name and address are not private data but open from privacy protection. 

How are you randomizing your sample? 


The more you randomize the better your results. 


Peter T


> On Jul 15, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Galen Panger <gpanger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, for my dissertation I'm recruiting separate samples of Twitter and
> Facebook users for a multi-part study (see http://facebookstudy.berkeley.edu
> and http://twitterstudy.berkeley.edu). I'm having some luck with Twitter
> ads, and with my university's subject pool for Facebook, but am wondering
> if folks here might have ideas for recruiting more participants to help put
> me over the top (I'm hoping to end with usable samples of over 300 each).
> 
> I'm paying about $25 (plus a $500 Apple Gift Card drawing) for a total time
> of around 90 minutes, with the catch that the second part of the study
> involves downloading and using an app, which is a step that results in a
> fair amount of drop-off (despite my follow-up efforts, which only help on
> the margin). I've tried Mechanical Turk but there's too much drop-off.
> Craigslist also appears to be taking down anything that's not a
> face-to-face transaction, and my study is entirely online/Qualtrics/app.
> Facebook ads haven't worked at all for recruitment for me.
> 
> Anyway -- if your university subject pool is open to outsiders, or if you
> have a tip that's worked for you in the past, I'm all ears for any ideas!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Galen
> 
> -- 
> galen.website
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