Tweet previews not showing the correct account avatar

alex_coppens · 2016-03-04T17:00:27.515Z

Hello

We are using the https://dev.twitter.com/ads/reference/get/accounts/:account_id/tweet/preview/:tweet_id endpoint and the tweet preview returned shows the correct tweets but with the wrong account avatar. Is it because we are using the wrong account_id? I think even if we chose the wrong :account_id, it should show the account avatar belonging to the tweet.

Thanks,

Alex

hector_borras · 2016-03-07T19:43:22.073Z

Hi @alex_coppens,

I think the problem is you’re not selecting the correct “as_user_id” parameter.

You should obtain Twitter Id from the user an put it in the parameter. That works for me!

Regards!

alex_coppens · 2016-03-07T20:43:51.442Z

I am very confused as to why I have to use a user_id parameter at all. It worked though and our caching will take care of the extra requests to get the user_id.

hector_borras · 2016-03-09T13:15:37.528Z

I don’t know if I’m missunderstanding something…

The important thing is, Twitter allows you to create tweet to another users (if the user gives you access).

If you read here: https://dev.twitter.com/ads/reference/post/accounts/%3Aaccount_id/tweet, how to post a tweet, you can see that you also can use “as_user_id” parameter to select the user, so, in concordance to this, twitter ads api allows you to preview a tweet with an specific user.

This may be helpfull for you