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With less than 100 days to go until the general election, it's a good idea to start thinking about a strategy for coverage if you haven't already.

Joanna Geary, head of news partnerships at Twitter UK, shares some advice for journalists on searching and building engagement around the election in this guest blog on Press Gazette.

Her tips include using Tweetdeck for searching and monitoring lists, setting up SMS alerts for a particular account and using images, photo filters and GIFs to make tweets more engaging.
  • Joanna Geary will give the afternoon keynote at Journalism.co.uk's upcoming news:rewired conference on February 3. Tickets are now sold out, but keep an eye on newsrewired.com and @newsrewired for updates throughout the day.

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