Let me break this down for you.
The URL tells you what you are going to be searching for on Twitter. What’s behind the “?” is a URL is what’s called a “query string”. Query = asking something. String = text. These two searches are almost exactly the same because they are both “searching” for the hashtag “#FreeedomConvoy2022”.
The first one is actually using the search engine inside Twitter. The “q” after the ? can be anything, but it traditionally means “query”. So, q=%23FreedomConvoy2022 (%23 is HTML character for #) means you are searching for that query inside the text of tweets. That query could be anything after the q=. The “&” is what separates queries.
The next query (after the “&”) is f=live. I think maybe the “f” stands for filter. But the value of f being “live” means Twitter is going to show you the latest tweets for the previously mentioned query for the hashtag. Other values for f can be user, image, and video. If you don’t use the f in the URL, it defaults to the “Top” views on Twitter for that search. You can line up the above values for f directly with the tabs on the Twitter search page.
The second URL is a direct hashtag link for “#FreedomConvoy”. It has one query parameter called “src”, which means “source”. The value hastag_click means it came from a hastag link in a tweet. I’m pretty sure it uses the same search engine functionality as above, but it’s a way to track exactly where the search came from. You can see that the second URL has the hashtag as part of the URL and not the query string parameters. It’s still doing the same thing as the first link. It’s all tracking stuff.
Thank you, I will attempt to grok.