Analytics V1 REST API - BILLING

[ZenMarketingHQ]

Bugs?

1. Bad documentation? https://dev.twitter.com/ads/basics/enums
   a. (metric_group) LIFETIME_VALUE_MOBILE_CONVERSION -> LIFE_TIME_VALUE_MOBILE_CONVERSION
   b. (placement) TWITTER_PUBLISHER_NETWORK -> PUBLISHER_NETWORK

2. V1 analytics api does not properly return the BILLING information:
   a. Not getting any billing information when querying at Account/Total. However, metric does match up properly with dashboard.
   {
   “data_type”: “stats”,
   “time_series_length”: 1,
   “data”: [
   {
   “id”: “18ce54a5b39”,
   “id_data”: [
   {
   “segment”: null,
   “metrics”: {
   “impressions”: [
   257058
   ],
   “follows”: [
   1
   ],
   “retweets”: [
   2
   ],
   “likes”: [
   34
   ],
   “engagements”: [
   991
   ],
   “replies”: null
   }
   }
   ]
   }
   ],
   “request”: {
   “params”: {
   “start_time”: “2016-04-01T07:00:00Z”,
   “segmentation_type”: null,
   “entity_ids”: null,
   “end_time”: “2016-04-02T07:00:00Z”,
   “country”: null,
   “placement”: “ALL_ON_TWITTER”,
   “granularity”: “DAY”,
   “entity”: “ACCOUNT”,
   “platform”: null,
   “metric_groups”: [
   “ENGAGEMENT”,
   “WEB_CONVERSION”,
   “MOBILE_CONVERSION”,
   “MEDIA”,
   “VIDEO”,
   “LIFE_TIME_VALUE_MOBILE_CONVERSION”,
   “BILLING”
   ]
   }
   }
   }
   b. When fetch billing info at campaign level, the aggregated sum still doesn’t match that of the dashboard

Is this bugs on V1 REST API?

Any help is appreciated!

[andypiper]

(moving to the Advertiser API category)

[hector_borras]

Hi @ZenMarketingHQ,

First of all, In my opinion, you should consider if you’re asking that question in a good way.

After this:

1 - I think you’re right, in my experience I’ve discovered the correct placement is PUBLISHER_NETWORK (well, twitter ads api error told me), I think is the same with the LIFE_TIME_VALUE:MOBILE_CONVERSION if error response says that to you.

2 -
a - If you go here https://dev.twitter.com/ads/analytics/metrics-and-segmentation-in-analytics you can see that you CAN’T retrieve billing information metric for an entity account, you must read the documentation carefully
b - Regarding with the campaign level, as you can see here https://dev.twitter.com/ads/analytics/best-practices

Analytics Metrics In a Nutshell

• All analytics metrics are locked and will not change after 24 hours, with the exception of billed_charge_local_micro.
• The billed_charge_local_micro metric is an estimate for up to 3 days after the data is returned.
• After 24 hours, this metric can decrease due to credits for overspend (ads served after the given end_time) and for billable events that are determined to be junk. This metric changes minimally after 24 hours.
• Please see Analytics for more information.

Hopefully this will help you.

Regards.