Backlinks from Twitter and Facebook

[dailypress]

Googling "Ashton Kutcher" [with ~7 Million results on Google] I noticed his twitter account shows up first.

Him having over 1.6 Million followers made me think the backlinks from other twitter accounts has given his page SEO value.

Can we assume a backlink from our social network accounts has more value with more friends and followers added?

And if so please let me know right now so I start adding popular people [aka profiles with thousands of so called friends]! ;)

[agerhart]

No, check out the backlinks to his page on Twitter.

[siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...]

The reason it ranks so well is due to the crazy amount of press he got during the race to a million followers with CNN.

[dailypress]

now that makes sense. thanks,

DP