Do FB Likes, Tweets, +1s etc give weightage to a page

[KS__]

Lets say I publish a PR with two anchor links (keywords) to a particular website. Will these backlinks get  more weightage in the eyes of Google if manage to get this page 100s and 1000s of FB Likes, tweets, +1s etc? Does this strategy really work?

[charles1]

Yes, I believe it does. I find if one of my article gets retweeted, digged, etc.. my blog post gets on to the first page of google. It also get crawled by google way faster.

Read this article... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings

[tylerfraser]

The real question here is "do no-followed links pass rank?" No. But the buzz of those upvotes would get you bonie links.

[KS__]

Thanks Lindz and Tyler. I have got my answer