why we failed to create ads tweets and timed tweets

[dsds11843942]

We are developing ads tool to upload media for ads, create promotion tweets, timed tweets and website cards, and get reporting data.

We implemented twitter account authorization (*) to allow our app to create promotion tweets and timed tweets at other accounts but we got the following errors and failed to create tweet at other accounts.

errors

the case that as_user_id was not set:
{“errors”:[{“code”:“UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS”,“message”:“User XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is not authorized to create tweets for user id XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”}],"

the case that as_user_id was set:
{“errors”:[{“code”:“UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS”,“message”:“User XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is not authorized to create tweets for user id XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”}],“request”:{“params”:{“text”:“scheduled_test_20181210_03”,“as_user_id”:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX,“nullcast”:false,“account_id”:“YYYYYYYYYY”}}}

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• our app got allowed to do the following things:

• access read, write and DM
• see, create and manage ads data
• see mail address

In case, what do we have to implement or set our account?

We used the following API endpoints.

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https://ads-api.twitter.com/4/accounts/YYYYYYYYYY/tweet/

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Thank you

[jrsyo]

Hi @dsds11843942 ,

Please check this post first:

Guidance for UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS issues

Recently, there have been several forum topics around UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS. Some examples include: Could not access Ads API with UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS error Ads API 403 'Unauthorized Access" How to generate Authorization Header Unauthorized_access UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS - Ads API Modify campaign via API Obtaining OAuth bearer token As this post states: If you receive a 401 UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS, the likely cause is that your authentication credentials were missing or incorrect. We strongly recomm…

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/ads/general/guides/getting-started#http-oauth

The API is strict with HTTP 1.1 and OAuth. Ensure that you’re encoding reserved characters appropriately within URLs and POST bodies before preparing OAuth signature base strings.

Also, please provide us your Ads account ID. Posting your Ads account ID here is safe.

Best,
Shohei

[dsds11843942]

Hi Shohei

Thank you for your replying.

We have 2 ads accounts, 18ce54kld5c and 18ce54sn9e8.
Our app under 18ce54kld5c was allowed to access ads, but we want to create promotion tweets not only at 18ce54kld5c but also 18ce54sn9e8.

Thank you

[juanshishido]

@dsds11843942: Please post the actual request you’re making, without obfuscating any of the IDs. We need to see the account ID and any user ID you’re passing into the request.

Also, this post might help User not authorized to create scheduled tweets.

The authenticated user (i.e., the user’s token that is being used) must have the TWEET_COMPOSER permission if attempting to create a Tweet on behalf of another user.

[dsds11843942]

Sorry, we got the following errors.

• the case that as_user_id was not set:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS",
      "message": "User 900293798307037186 is not authorized to create tweets for user id 900293798307037186"
    }
  ]
}

• the case that as_user_id was set:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS",
      "message": "User 900293798307037186 is not authorized to create tweets for user id 900293798307037186"
    }
  ],
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "text": "scheduled_test_20181210_03",
      "as_user_id": 900293798307037186,
      "nullcast": false,
      "account_id": "18ce54sn9e8"
    }
  }
}

We used the following API endpoints.

https://ads-api.twitter.com/4/accounts/18ce54sn9e8/tweet/

Thank you

[dsds11843942]

In other ways, we tried to create promotable_user but we also got failed.

Authenticated User Access

{
  "data": {
    "user_id": 900293798307037186,
    "permissions": [
      "ACCOUNT_ADMIN",
      "TWEET_COMPOSER"
    ]
  },
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "account_id": "18ce54kld5c"
    }
  }
}

{
  "data": {
    "user_id": 900293798307037186,
    "permissions": [
      "AD_MANAGER",
      "TWEET_COMPOSER"
    ]
  },
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "account_id": "18ce54sn9e8"
    }
  }
}

Twiiter user

ads account id : 18ce54kld5c
user ID:900293798307037186

ads account id : 18ce54sn9e8
user ID:942666096250830848

promotable_users

https://ads-api.twitter.com/4/accounts/18ce54kld5c/promotable_users
{
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "account_id": "18ce54kld5c"
    }
  },
  "next_cursor": null,
  "data": [
    {
      "user_id": "900293798307037186",
      "id": "sjtf3",
      "account_id": "18ce54kld5c",
      "created_at": "2017-09-21T08:56:33Z",
      "updated_at": "2018-05-01T08:51:48Z",
      "deleted": false,
      "promotable_user_type": "FULL"
    }
  ]
}

https://ads-api.twitter.com/4/accounts/18ce54sn9e8/promotable_users
{
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "account_id": "18ce54sn9e8"
    }
  },
  "next_cursor": null,
  "data": [
    {
      "user_id": "942666096250830848",
      "id": "10lydz",
      "account_id": "18ce54sn9e8",
      "created_at": "2018-10-23T13:11:47Z",
      "updated_at": "2018-10-23T18:49:00Z",
      "deleted": false,
      "promotable_user_type": "FULL"
    }
  ]
}

We think we’ll get able to create promotion tweets and timed tweets when we create promotable user (942666096250830848) under 18ce54kld5c.

Thank you.

[juanshishido]

This is good information, @dsds11843942.

Looking at just the information for ads account 18ce54sn9e8, I believe I may be able to help.

In your example request with as_user_id, you are specifying 900293798307037186 as the user ID.

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS",
      "message": "User 900293798307037186 is not authorized to create tweets for user id 900293798307037186"
    }
  ],
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "text": "scheduled_test_20181210_03",
      "as_user_id": 900293798307037186,
      "nullcast": false,
      "account_id": "18ce54sn9e8"
    }
  }
}

When you’re making the GET accounts/:account_id/promotable_users request, however, you’ll see that the FULL promotable user for ads account 18ce54sn9e8 is actually 942666096250830848. (The FULL promotable user is the user (@handle) who owns an ads account; the user the ads account belongs to.)

In your Tweet (or Scheduled Tweet) create request, you should be specifying as_user_id=942666096250830848 when creating a Tweet using ads account 18ce54sn9e8 in the URL path.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!