Twitter (X) Ads: How to Create an Ad Account and Launch a Campaign

Quick answer: To run Twitter (now X) ads, log in to your account, open ads.x.com (earlier ads.twitter.com), choose your country and time zone, select a campaign objective, add a funding source and daily budget, set dates, choose the audience, add your post or creative and launch.

  1. You need to have twitter account for creating twitter ad account.

Login to your twitter account

The twitter account will be linked to twitter ads account.

Click on ads.twitter.com

Select your country

Select your time zone

Click on “Let’s go”

This will take you to the campaign objective page.

You can decide what campaign you would like to run.

Let us say our objective is to drive traffic to the website

Click on next

Enter the name of the campaign

Enter the funding source

Enter the Daily budget

Enter the start and end date of the campaign

Click next

Enter Ad group details

Enter “Total ad group budget”


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Select “Goals” – Site visits, link clicks or conversion

Click on “site event” then create “Site event”

Create the website universal t

Copy or download the code snippet below and paste it before the </head> HTML tag of all pages on your website.

You may also download and add the chrome extension to check whether tracking url is firing on your website or not.

Create event on your website.

The first event that you would like to track would be the website visit.

Click on add event

Enter the details of your events

The next event that you would like to add would be newsletter sign up. Enter the exact url that you would like to track after the sign up of the newsletter as given below

Switch off your Twitter Audience campaign – Twitter Audience Platform

“You need to select at least one Tweet to launch this campaign.“

Click next and your campaign set up is completed.

Frequently asked questions

Is Twitter Ads now called X Ads?

Yes. Twitter was renamed X, and the ads platform is now X Ads. The steps are similar.

What objective should I choose to get website visits?

Choose the website traffic (or clicks) objective and add your landing page URL.