We define symplectic fractional twists, which subsume Dehn twists and fibered twists and use these in open books to investigate contact structures. The resulting contact structures are invariant under a circle action, and share several similarities with the invariant contact structures that were studied by Lutz and Giroux. We show that left-handed fractional twists often give rise to "algebraically overtwisted" contact manifolds, a certain class of non-fillable contact manifolds.NSC [101-2115-M-006-003]; NCTS (South), Taiwan; National Natural Science Foundation of China [11371033]; NRF - Korean government [2012-011755]SCI(E)ARTICLEriverch@mail.ncku.edu.tw; dingfan@math.pku.edu.cn; okoert@snu.ac.kr32