@rogeyrooo: I don’t have specifics on the way studio.twitter.com works as it’s outside of ads. You’re right that media get added there when sent from the Twitter app. I just uploaded a video using the POST media/upload endpoint. It does not show up on studio.twitter.com.
Whenever media assets are uploaded using the POST media/upload (for images, for example) or the POST media/upload (chunked) (for videos, for example) endpoints, those assets are put in a temporary store. You may have noticed that they have expirations. For example, images typically expire after 24 hours (86,400 seconds)—see expires_after_secs.
{
"media_id": 710511363345354753,
"media_id_string": "710511363345354753",
"media_key": "3_710511363345354753",
"size": 11065,
"expires_after_secs": 86400,
"image": {
"image_type": "image/jpeg",
"w": 800,
"h": 320
}
}
It’s only when they are used—for example, in Tweets, cards, as account_media, etc.—that they are moved to a permanent store. Alternatively, you can use the POST accounts/:account_id/videos endpoint to associate a video with an ads account. This moves the video to the permanent store. On the ads side, you can see all of these media assets here: https://ads.twitter.com/accounts/{account_id}/media. This will include media assets that have been used or that have been added to the ads account using the POST accounts/:account_id/videos endpoint.
When I do a GET on the Ad Account API to see all the media creatives, I get a full list of all the images I had associated with the Ad Account, as well as URLs to view the images on pbs.twimg.com, so clearly the images are making it Twitter, but just not in a user friendly fashion.
Could you clarify this, please? If you’re referring to the GET accounts/:account_id/media_creatives endpoint, that’ll only show account_media that has been associated with a line item. In other words, images (or preroll assets) that are being promoted.
Thanks.
