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Buffer Overview

What is Buffer?

Buffer is an intuitive, streamlined social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive meaningful engagement and results on social media. Buffer is a team of real people, aligned with common values. Being a Buffer customer should feel like you have a whole team of people cheering for you. We want to see you succeed on social!

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Product Description

Buffer makes it super easy to share any page you're reading. Keep your Buffer topped up and we automagically share posts for you through the day.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Buffer places a premium on customer support, user experience, education resources, and clarity. We want to see you succeed on social media, as easily and completely as you can.

The suite of Buffer tools puts a premium on publishing and analytics.


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Buffer
Year Founded
2010
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San Francisco, CA
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945,458 Twitter followers
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226 employees on LinkedIn®
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The most flexible social media toolkit from the most flexible company. ✨Create, schedule, publish, and analyze your posts in one place.


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StartupStage S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great software solution for managing Social media!"
Simplcity of sending and adjusting tone and hastags by platform. However I did notice a a 20% decrease when I start using the feature. I am unsure ...
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4.5 out of 5
"Buffer manages your social media pipeline"
I love that I can customize the posts for each different platform I plan to post on. It really helps cater the message to the audience that uses di...
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5.0 out of 5
"Great for building a social media presence"
You can connect most of your social media platforms and create a schedule. It allows you to cusomize the posts so while they may be similar, you're...
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Buffer Demo - Social media planning and publishing
Plan your social schedule ahead of time with a calendar view or queue view.
Buffer Demo - Reply to comments
Engage with your Instagram and Facebook audiences.
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Build a link in bio page in minutes.
Buffer Demo - Easy to understand analytics
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Measure your social media performance in a few clicks by planning the campaign and scheduling the post as it also provides tool for scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I don't feel any point to dislike the brand everything is positive and up to the mark which I feel is really positive and beneficial. So as far as now I don't have any dislike point to add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are many things that Buffer is solving which is mostly related to social media performance which including measuring and analysis with the scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The thing which I really like about Buffer is its scheduling feature in Buffer. You can schedule your post anytime, which helps in saving a lot of time.

Calendar view: It is lovely to have all my scheduled posts for all my campaigns displayed in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Even though Buffer is a great tool, I dislike using it for Twitter because Twitter only accepts 140 characters. We always make our Facebook posts longer than 150 characters. So, when we make a post on Buffer, it always shows an error for Twitter. Perhaps Buffer should create some Twitter-specific functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Yes, I recommend others to give Buffer a try. It might be beneficial if you want your marketing efforts to be more effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our Team productivity has also increased since we no longer have to spend time posting on one platform at a time. With Buffer, I can schedule my social media posts in advance and focus more on creating content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jackson F.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I know that it is one of the best companies to manage publications and other things regarding a social network, whatever it may be, it is very orderly, thus being able to program with some time in advance, which helps us to make a more prepared material and that is publish without delay at an exact time most convenient for us Buffer users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

What I don't like about Buffer is that it is one of the cheapest and therefore the tools it offers are not of the best quality, since we are exchanging quality for accessibility. Therefore, although it has improved a lot in recent times, it has several things to improve, such as preventing the chrome extension from freezing and closing the browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I highly recommend it because it has been improving a lot over the years, perfecting details that often bothered or annoyed us users. It is a team that cares about its users. This is why I would like to use it to test at least. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is essential for those of us who create content in some way, because it helps us manage our publications and therefore save time that can be used for something else important, Buffer offers a very good service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Can post in many places from the same window Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I can't manage my social media messages using their platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Can post in many places from the same window Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I have several clients using Buffer to manage social media. I love that you can add your own images even with a URL so that you can control what appears on social. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I haven't found anything to dislike yet. The hardest part for me to figure out was where to update the time zone - but once you see where it is, it's easy to find again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It was pretty simple to connect to the social platforms, and the learning curve was minimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Buffer for scheduling social posts well in advance, but I've also begun using it instead of posting natively on the social apps themselves, because it makes it super easy to post the same or similar messages to more than one platform at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I work for a social media marketing agency, and we use Buffer to manage multiple accounts. I like how easy it is to schedule posts. Reports are probably the best out there. Plus, it's relatively inexpensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer doesn't allow me to post carousel photos on Instagram or LinkedIn, and I post carousels a lot. In general, it's not great for LinkedIn if you use more than one image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Buffer is a good tool for managing multiple social media accounts on different platforms, but it has its downfalls when it comes to working with IG and LinkedIn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm scheduling posts for a month in advance for up to ten clients at a time, and Buffer helps me to solve this. The best thing about Buffer is that I can easily add many accounts to the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Use Buffer to manage multiple social media accounts. I can plan and publish the content I have created to Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. Being able to tailor each post for the different platforms saves time. Also, use the calendar view to see an overview of when you have scheduled out the content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer does not allow all posting options, such as posting carousel to Instagram. Limited on the number of social media platforms on the free account. Pricing is a bit high for $5 for each social media account over 3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to easily add social media accounts to Buffer and manage them in all one place. Handy notification to remind when it is time to post content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I usually prepare posts for our startup Instagram account before; sometimes, we have many Instagram posts to prepare for different dates, it can become hard to maintain quickly. After finding Buffer, we didn't miss any dates, and users always get our event dates on time. This app is crucial because event promotions must be published in 3 or 4 months to achieve expected sales; with that time window is easy to forget to post some; fortunately, now we have Buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish they could provide the stories schedule with the free plan; we understand that developers need retribution for their work, but for countries where the dollar is not the primary currency, it is expensive to maintain a business account for the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Although the app is free to download, if you want to schedule Instagram stories, you have to pay for the next plan that is around 5 dollars a month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

We promote and support local electronic music events. We use Instagram to reach a larger audience; Buffer has become our allie, let us relax, and when the time to post comes, we get a handy notification to remind us. This way, we have more time to focus on other tasks, and always be on time to get our followers informed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The best advantage of Digital Marketing is that, that we can keep a track of our campaigns in real-time and can modify them if required. This is the thing where Buffer scores 110/100 and further also helps to get the modification campaigns in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Nothing as of now. Buffer is good for the folks running a start-up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It saves my time in doing some repetitive posts. The repetitive tasks are well handled by the bots of the Buffer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roshni G.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like how it made it easy for me to operate all my social media accounts without switching to another platform. The graphs result of this software is more accurate than most other software. Engaging with my audience is now in my hand with the help of Buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I didn't particularly appreciate how it lags when you log in into too many accounts at once. Many essential features are not available in the free version. I understand that it's a business for developers, but they could offer some extra features in the free version. The pre-scheduling feature has limitations. You cannot arrange all the post for an entire month at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Well, You can log into up to 5 accounts, but more than that, create some lags. However, If you use this software properly, you will surely see results. I highly Recommended it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Buffer solving and how is that benefiting you?

The market is all about visibility consumers buy what they see. With Buffer, I found it easy to manage all my ad campaigns and track them. My team now works better in collaboration with other groups using Buffer. It improved our productivity by providing all the crucial features we used in digital marketing and content management. We don't need to rely on other software for the same tasks. Involvement with the audience is now more effective, which increases our business reach among the audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.