Ack, no. Let's not go the Twitter route. Then it becomes a popularity contest.
I did a few shorts on here a couple of years ago (different name - changed emails, lost PW, usual stuff) and someone was pimping his/her story on Twitter. It kind of put me off a bit, as no one else was doing it, and then it did become a question of whose family and friends signed up to vote.
For the record, I do it for practice as I'm not good at short stories. I'm better at 100K+ LOL! It's nice to get the odd vote of confidence, but I'm not going to go hassling friends to vote for me, and if I don't get any votes (like the previous couple of months), I'm not going to be butthurt.