I’ve tried to engender enough good will with a ton of good freely available content, so my readers would be ok with “buying” a download with a tweet, even if they hadn’t read it yet. So I guess I was a little surprised by the negative feedback. Hopefully the added option to pay with money addresses the issue of not wanting to pay with social media.

For me, I think the issue is that tweets *are* social currency… and I felt uncomfortable sharing something before I knew whether the content was worthwhile (I was pretty sure in this case – by reputation – that it would be, and it was, but it won’t always be that way when people get a hold of this).

Our recommendations are a big part of our social currency, and I guess my fear would be that by recommending something that was less-than-useful, people might start paying less attention to what I have to say, which is social media suicide.

This resource guide is exactly the kind of thing that I *want* to share with my twitter peeps – thanks so much for having that as a ‘payment’ option.