As stated before in previous postings is that my initial idea of tracking of interactions from social sites such as FB, Twitter and Google+ is to utilize query parameters at the end of the link that the user clicks through to get to the application. It is quite possible that the person does not use the link and instead navigates to the site just by entering in the URL which is completely fine. This is where Google Analytics comes into play to help me see where the referrals are coming from when the users come to interact with the site.
Also there is this option, http://keyhole.co/hashtag-analytics, which allows the tracking of the hashtag usage on Twitter and FB for #TrollMeAStory. I am still looking into other solutions since the ability to hook into FB’s hashtag tracking api is still on a whitelist program; you can view the details about it at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed. The pricing is a bit up there just to track hashtags so there are a few other solutions on the plate to explore that are listed on this particular blog post http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/hashtag-tracking/
As I dig deeper into the hashtag tracking it seems that I may need to review this particular article, http://www.socialbakers.com/blog/1826-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hashtags-on-facebook, that might shed a light on the ambigiouty of pulling the tracking information for hashtags on FB. Of course I may just be sated with the results from Google Analytics and utilizing the tracking of the urls used in the posts that the users post to their social accounts.
So the plan for now is to use links with the social queries at the end of those links and also use Google Analytics to track referrals.
