Excellent Post on 10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News Profile in Read/WriteWeb where a couple of tips are new to me but I should be following such as:

"…Search Google for Profiles on Your Favorite Social News Sites Mentioning Twitter

This is similar to the last trick, but this time, go to Google and type in: site:digg.com/users "Twitter" "StumbleUpon" and you'll see a lot of Digg users with Twitter accounts, who have linked to Twitter in their user profile. Follow the link to their Twitter profile, see if they're still active and follow them. The reason you're searching for StumbleUpon as well is that it increases the likelihood that Google will return results where Twitter appears in the About section of a user's profile — try substituting StumbleUpon for other social networking sites to change your results set. You can try this trick with any social news site."

Though it doesn't seem to work with any other site than Digg.com - still, it's interesting.

"..Twitter-jack" Active Social News & Twitter Users' Friends

When you find a popular Twitter user who's also using your social sites a lot, go through the list of people they're following and follow them too, look especially close for names and avatars you recognize from those other sites. This can be a recursive process, take hours, and ultimately lead you to a lot of new Twitter friends."

Not actually sure how to do that….. for example, how do you know whick twitter users are looking at Webmetricsguru.com?  Talkdigger?   In other words, the idea is good, but how do you do it?

 "…Consider Using a Social Media Specific URL Shortener

If you're trying to get more popular on multiple social news sites, the tendency may be to post a link to the story on every social site you want it submitted. This will annoy your friends and followers. Instead, try something like Votrs.com which will not only create a short URL for tweeting long links, but the landing page will also include buttons and badges for easy submission and voting on various social sites of your choosing."

Interesting… I bet most people using Twitter don't do this  

Original Link: Is Ning Traffic full of Porn? Shortened URL: http://votrs.com/c381cf4e

Not submitted to Digg yet, submit it now. Not submitted to Reddit yet, submit it now. Not submitted to Del.icio.us yet, submit it now. Not submitted to StumbleUpon yet, submit it now. Not submitted to Mixx yet, submit it now. Not submitted to Sphinn yet, submit it now.

 Except for the possibility for submitting the url to various other social network sites … I don't see how the Tiny Url is optimized for Social Media - but, still, it's worth adding this step as it could generate more traffic.