Does Google use data from social sites in ranking?

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Hello Matt, a recent article of Danny Sullivan suggests that Google uses Twitter and Facebook links as a ranking signal. Can you confirm this? Can you elaborate a little bit more on this?
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Added: 04-10-2011

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Tags: google search social ranking matt cutts

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