Promoting a Tweet returns a PromotedTweet entity associated to wrong tweet

[etam]

Hi,

I am having a problem when I try to promote a tweet, the returned promoted_tweet entity is associated to another tweet. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Below is the related information:
Account: 2dgb8g
Tweet ID: 819999933424017408
Line Item ID: 7i3s2

Example:
<=== [2017-01-23 19:18:19 +0000 :: ourqmj3mc :: 785o :: 4754024534] twurl -H ads-api.twitter.com -X POST -d "line_item_id=7i3s2&tweet_ids=819999933424017408" "/1/accounts/2dgb8g/promoted_tweets"

===> [2017-01-23 19:18:19 +0000 :: ourqmj3mc :: 785o :: 201 Created :: 0.886s :: 299/300 (…59s)]

{  
  "data_type":"promoted_tweet",
  "data":[  
    {  
      "line_item_id":"7i3s2",
      "display_properties":[  

      ],
      "id":"158rkd",
      "paused":false,
      "created_at":"2017-01-23T18:43:01Z",
      "updated_at":"2017-01-23T18:43:01Z",
      "approval_status":"ACCEPTED",
      "tweet_id":"823601949777870851",
      "deleted":false
    }
  ],
  "request":{  
    "params":{  
      "line_item_id":"7i3s2",
      "tweet_ids":[  
        819999933424017408
      ],
      "account_id":"2dgb8g"
    }
  },
  "total_count":1
}

[JBabichJapan]

Does this campaign have multiple line items? There is some admittedly confusing behavior where each unique Tweet ID that you associate to a line item will get a unique Promoted Tweet ID, but the same Tweet ID on multiple line items will also result in a different Promoted Tweet ID for each line item.

The tweet response looks basically the same to me but there is a small change in one having scope: followers: none twice and the other only once. I think for this line item you would track the tweet ID returned in the response, could you please check whether the other ID is associated with another line item?

Thanks,

John

[etam]

The campaign has ~7600 line items in it. And the Tweet ID included in the response indeed was also promoted in some other line items within the same campaign.

[juanshishido]

@etam: The maximum number of line items per campaign is 100 and 4,000 across all campaigns. (See POST accounts/:account_id/line_items.)

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We’ve done some additional investigating. It looks like you’re trying to associate 819999933424017408 with a line item that belongs to account ID 2dgb8g (@WalmartCanada). However, 819999933424017408 belongs to another account—@WalmartCanadaFr.

$ twurl -H api.twitter.com "/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=823601949777870851&tweet_mode=extended&trim_user=false" | jq
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  "full_text": "RT @WalmartCanadaFr: Nous n’avons pas de bouledogues français, mais cette adorable literie de scooters, oui! https://t.co/s2SuK0zVGH https:…",
  "truncated": false,
  "display_text_range": [
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On the POST accounts/:account_id/promoted_tweets endpoint request, @WalmartCanada’s Retweet is being associated with the line item. However, this points to @WalmartCanadaFr’s original Tweet.

We’ll investigate further to determine whether this is the expected behavior.

Thanks!