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Tags: <word-choice><phrase-request><informal-language>
Title: Synonym for the word "information"
Question: A friend sent me an email telling me about a job opening.  I want to send him an email telling him " thank you for the information about the job ", but I feel that the the word "information" is very broad and formal, I want something specific and casual.  What one word or phrase can I use to replace information in the  bold  sentence above?

Answers:
sents: text: If this is a useful piece of information about the job offer then " tip " could be helpful: Thank you for the tip.
text: Instead of the word " information " you can say " info " which will sound less formal.
text: Thanks for the info.
text: If it's a reference to a webpage or maybe some other source then the word " link " will be the right one.
text: Thank you for the link.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/44134/SovereignSun
score: 6
sents: text: I wouldn't say that the word information sounds formal.
text: Though, I agree with you that it is, in some sense, broad in meaning.
text: It's nevertheless a very basic and everyday word just like many other words in English.
text: So, there's really nothing wrong in using it the way you're using it in your sentence.
text: But if you do insist on sounding a little bit more terse and casual, consider substituting the whole thing with find : Thank you for your find .
text: Thanks for the find .
text: Possibly, a word like tidbit would work even better: Thanks for the tidbit .
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/6450/Michael Rybkin
score: 5
sents: text: It depends on what exactly you want to say.
text: As Cookie Monster mentions, Thank you for your find works well.
text: Also: Thank you for the listing.
text: Thank you for the lead.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/33837/Ringo
score: 3
sents: text: You may want to thank him for contacting you rather than for the information -- that is, the communication is more important than the data.
text: So you can choose from many synonyms for the communication itself and the act of communicating: contact, notice, notification, note, message, email, reaching out, letting me know, telling me, and so on.
text: For example: Thank you for letting me know about the job.
text: or Thank you for your message about the job
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/28413/user8356
score: 2
sents: text: You can even use word particulars (that is, the details).
text: The sentence could be structured as: "Thank you for the particulars."
text: According to Dictionary.com (definition 11), the word means: particular (noun) usually particulars .
text: specific points, details, or circumstances : to give an investigator the particulars of a case .
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/94582/Nancy Kanwar
score: 2
sents: text: You can always look up the word in a good thesaurus .
text: My recommendations, though not a native speaker, are info tip notice
text: guidance news update guessing from the context.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/17814/Kentaro
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
You could use many terms for this communication and the  information in it, including particulars, details, note, message, contact or email. A set example would be "Thank you for letting me know about the job" or  "Thank you for your message about the job".
You can either say thank you for contacting or thank you for the particulars