My only suggestion would be to have the clicks open in a new tab or window so as not to loose focus on the forum itself.
I did this by editing the code as such. Because we only use twitter right now, only that was edited.
Code:
<!--Twitter Code-->
<br /><a href="XXXX" target=”_blank”><img src="images/misc/95x56/twitter_follow_us.png" title="Follow Us on Twitter" width="95" height="56" style="margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 16px;"/></a>