'Pay With A Tweet' - Yay or Nay
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Is this system a good way of creating social signals?
If you have something of value maybe a eBook, does using the 'Pay With A Tweet' system seem like a good one?
The only thing I can think of that would be negative is if they paid with a tweet and then after removed the tweet.
Cheers
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There was a YouMoz post last year at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-win-tweets-and-influence-search-engines-with-paywithatweet that explored using PWAT.
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I agree that you need to make sure there are other ways to get the ebook (or whatever you are giving away). It may be hard to believe, but not everyone has a Twitter and/or Facebook, or they may not be willing to use it and you don't want to send a potential customer away frustrated. But otherwise I think it is a great idea and is at least worth testing.
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Paying with a social signal is a great idea, but only if you give alternative means of getting the product. Ask for a minimum donation price or the like/tweet/etc and visitors will think they are getting a bargain by helping out your social media campaign.
Obviously this doesn't work out too well if you aren't actually selling anything. In that case I'd argue against giving access to content for a social signal, as that is extremely annoying and many will stop visiting your site because of it.
So in short, make sure users will want to tweet/like in exchange.
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