[400] bid_type TARGET is available when the objective is set to AWARENESS or WEBSITE_CLICKS

[wenping.wang]

When we set bid_type to TARGET in a Followers campaign creation,
The error like following returned.

[400] bid_type TARGET is available when the objective is set to AWARENESS or WEBSITE_CLICKS

But according to Ads UI, the TARGET bid_type is allowed in a Followers campaign.

[wenping.wang]

Anyone help me to answer this ?

[goforbrent]

Can you please provide the twurl request / response when you received this error? I tested myself creating a line item with objective=FOLLOWERS and bid_type=TARGET without issue. Thanks!

$ twurl -X POST -H ads-api.twitter.com "/2/accounts/18ce5475gij/line_items?campaign_id=a9072&objective=FOLLOWERS&product_type=PROMOTED_ACCOUNT&placements=ALL_ON_TWITTER&bid_amount_local_micro=1000000&entity_status=PAUSED&bid_type=TARGET" | jq
{
  "data": {
    "bid_type": "TARGET",
    "advertiser_user_id": 1877861928,
    "name": "Untitled",
    "placements": [
      "ALL_ON_TWITTER"
    ],
    "start_time": null,
    "bid_amount_local_micro": 1000000,
    "automatically_select_bid": false,
    "advertiser_domain": null,
    "target_cpa_local_micro": null,
    "primary_web_event_tag": null,
    "charge_by": "FOLLOW",
    "product_type": "PROMOTED_ACCOUNT",
    "end_time": null,
    "bid_unit": "FOLLOW",
    "total_budget_amount_local_micro": null,
    "objective": "FOLLOWERS",
    "id": "awypl",
    "entity_status": "PAUSED",
    "account_id": "18ce5475gij",
    "optimization": "DEFAULT",
    "categories": [],
    "currency": "USD",
    "created_at": "2018-01-23T00:41:34Z",
    "tracking_tags": [],
    "updated_at": "2018-01-23T00:41:34Z",
    "include_sentiment": "POSITIVE_ONLY",
    "campaign_id": "a9072",
    "creative_source": "MANUAL",
    "deleted": false
  },
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "bid_type": "TARGET",
      "placements": [
        "ALL_ON_TWITTER"
      ],
      "bid_amount_local_micro": 1000000,
      "product_type": "PROMOTED_ACCOUNT",
      "objective": "FOLLOWERS",
      "entity_status": "PAUSED",
      "account_id": "18ce5475gij",
      "campaign_id": "a9072"
    }
  }
}

[wenping.wang]

@goforbrent

But according to Ads document,
TARGET is only allowed to set to AWARENESS or WEBSITE_CLICKS.

TARGET attempts to make daily bid averages within 20% of the specified bid_amount_local_micro and is available when the objective is set to AWARENESS or WEBSITE_CLICKS.```

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/ads/campaign-management/api-reference/line-items

[goforbrent]

Hi @wenping.wang,

You are correct about the Ads documentation. We are working on updating the documentation, as there are always many moving pieces. Can you confirm if you did receive an error when trying the POST line_items or was this based from the documentation?