Pay with a tweet

you need enough free content on your site so people know what they are getting and will want to pay with a tweet.

I personally have never paid with a tweet or a like to read any content. That is not to say I never would

al

You have plugins that lock in content so that people have to give you social votes to read the content. Google "social locker" and you'll see multiple options.

This kind of plugins boosts your social votes but at the same time, it will make some of your visitors angry. When you're looking for content would you like to "pay with a tweet or a social vote" before you read the article?

To answer your question, this kind of plugins should boost the social votes and increase your bounce rate at the same time.

Iteration,

I think you will be losing a large part of your potential audience if you do this. First, there is a large segment of the population that don't tweet at all - so they can "pay" for your content.

In addition, as Al stated, many probably don't want to be linking to anyone they don't know or trust.

Also, you stated that they first have to tweet, then they get access. Why would I want to share your content before I even knew what it was? What if it's total garbage or nothing but a hype filled sales letter? Why would I want to endorse that?

To me, the better approach is to not limit your audience and give the article away freely with a back link to your web site. Then your prospects won't be limited because there is no risk to the receiver in that process.

Good luck to you,

Steve

Yea, I agree with others. I don't think this is a very good idea. It would be more effective I think to add your 'share this on twitter' call to actions at the end of the content. If they liked the content, this is the time they'd be most inclined to share it.

I was thinking the same thing but only locking the last paragraph of the article and structuring the content to make this appealing but its not a good idea.

I might implement it for one or two competitions and leave all the articles open.

I think you should have to provide 2 to 3 paragraphs for free after you put "tweet"and ask readers/visitor please tweet to read the complete article. So there is more chance that interested people will tweet it.

That would be a stupid thing to do asking people to tweet before reading your article, instead install a social share plugin so readers can tweet or like your article if it is good content. If you were to do that, most people would leave without reading your article.

I actually did this with a lot of success.

I told people to share and comment on a particular blog post for a discount/eBook. Helped it rank in no time

I've seen this on Facebook, I think this is something that works to start, but people get sick of it.

Just my opinion

More and more people will skip the content and move on, I do it for news site they give me a part then I have to subscribe I move on, but it might be profitable, you have to test is you decide to go that route.

Its a bad idea. Unless you offer them for free

I only tweet something that I've read and liked (even if I like something, doesn't mean I'll tweet it). I'm pretty picky. Otherwise, I risk my own reputation by tweeting something that ends up being a waste of time.

Yeah, this idea definitely rubs me the wrong way.

The vast majority of people, 95%+, don't share/tweet a link to an articles even if they think the content is top quality.

How can this be encouraged without making it mandatory to read the full article?

In a couple of my sites I invest a lot of my time into researching and writing on topics that are comprehensive and solve problems for a lot of people in a certain niche and even when they have followers/friends that would benefit from the content the reader still won't share.

What are you thoughts of asking people to share your content if they think it is good as they only way that you can continue to invest your time to supply them with this level of content is to grow your readership with their help. I haven't seen that done much and personally I am not a fan of adding this line to my articles.

I'm sure if I surveyed my readers if they think the content is share-worthy the majority will say yes but they still won't click the share button!

I understand, especially with Facebook, that its their personal social space to share pictures of their holidays and parties with their friends and not a place for a string of article links but with Twitter there seems to be more willingness to share interesting content however while almost all my readers have Facebook only about half have a twitter account.

I'm missing on on a lot of traffic as the following graphic shows:

No. Tweeting before you read the post is backwards. I just won't do it!

A better idea is to deliver such good content that your visitors would naturally tweet it, FB Like it or even G+ it.

Every time I get to a blog and it blocks content, I just leave immediately.

Nope nope nope. It's too aggressive. The Internet's a big old place, pretty sure I could find the information I need without being strong-armed into anything.