#Tip of the day for journalists: Use this tool to find out when a Twitter contact amends their bio
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New job titles can provide stories for journalists, and while many reporters are familiar with keeping tabs on their contacts via LinkedIn, perhaps fewer do so by using a tool to find out when Twitter bios are updated.
In this guide to searching social media we published earlier today, we recommend a tool called ‘Bio is changed’. It was brought to our attention by Jack Hage.
The tool allows you to sign up for email notifications so that you are alerted when a Twitter contact changes their bio. You can also check out the bio history of a person.
And as I said in the guide, if I had been using this tool earlier this month I would have noted a bio change in Alastair Dant’s profile which would have provided a news story as he is leaving the Guardian’s interactive team which he heads up and heading to the New York Times.
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