slash vs question mark

Question

I am running a website like twitter where users can view their posts by going to

www.mywebsite.com/post.php?pid=555

Where 555 is the id of the post they request, but I noticed when you view your status on twitter you go to something like for example

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/484722240684965888

where I think 484722240684965888 is the id of the status.

so does twitter have a folder for every status on their website?

Naaa again .. Search for `Rewrite URLS with htaccess` on Google — Umair Ayub, Oct 31 '14 at 05:55
https://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/ — Scott Harris, Oct 31 '14 at 05:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '14 at 05:54

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This is likely done using a rewrite engine such as Apache's mod_rewrite.

I would recommend that you should read up on that. Depending on your server configuration you would likely do this through a .htaccess file

answered Oct 31 '14 at 05:54

Kevin Morse

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