A Twitter Web Tag is a piece of HTML that you implement in your website to enable measuring the results of your Promoted Tweets.

Creating a tag takes just a few minutes. So what do you need to do?

  1. First go to the Twitter Ad panel: https://ads.twitter.com
  2. If you have access to a few ad accounts, select the one that you want to create campaigns with.
  3. Click Tools at the top of the panel and select ‘Conversion Tracking’.
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  4. Next click on ‘Create new conversion event’.
  5. Add a custom name, select what type of conversion you want to track, and set post-view and post-click attribution windows, agree to Twitter policy and hit ‘Save conversion event’.
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  6. Your tag is ready!

Now you have to download the snippet code and place it at the bottom of every page on your website before the </body> HTML tag.

How to know that your tag is placed correctly and it’s able to collect data?

  1. Next to every tag, Twitter shows you this status:
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  2. You can also install a Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-pixel-helper/jepminnlebllinfmkhfbkpckogoiefpd) that shows you how many pixels were found on a specific page, if they’ve encoured any problems, and how to solve them:
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Start analyzing your Twitter performance

Read also:

  1. What is a Twitter Web Tag?
  2. What kind of conversions Twitter Website Tag can track?
  3. Should I promote my tweets?
  4. How to Conduct an Excellent Twitter Audit in 15 Minutes