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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
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
Twitter
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945,458 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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226 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

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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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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Anne O.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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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Cori F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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 Media

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.
Buffer Demo - Create your own Start Page
Build a link in bio page in minutes.
Buffer Demo - Easy to understand analytics
Get insights and answers to help you optimize your content.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love that it's super visual - I can easily see what social slots need to be filled, and it's easy to gauge what's in the queue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Analytics aren't as good as others in the industry, such as HubSpot. Scheduling drafts for approval is incredibly clunky and hard to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm able to map out social media posts for clients and easily see them visually in the system. Not all social schedulers are as easy to view! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer allows me to schedule posts to various social media outlets days or weeks in advance. I like that the first tier of the service is free. And it's affordable when you're ready to level up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Connecting to Instagram is tricky. The Instagram has to be linked to a FB account. This can be a problem if you're using multiple Insta accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I don't use Buffer for FB and Insta anymore since they offer in-app scheduling, but it is still convenient for scheduling posts to LinkedIn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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laid out very simply and easy to use, very quick and simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

not as much information in regards to analytics as Sprout does Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

keeping all social media platforms organized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It's easy to connect accounts, good UI overall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I couldn't connect accounts into one group, which was very annoying since I'm managing SM for more than 30 clients. Also it's not possible to simply copy scheduled posts into other account or platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The free version of buffer allows 10 scheduled posts, and even includes twitter and linked in. That's enough for some people! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

If you need to schedule many accounts, it gets expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer allows me to simplify my work week and keep clients happy by having their content go out on time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Renée Y.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love that I can schedule all my posts to my social media posts at one time in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Sometimes it disconnects from my platforms and doesn't post to that platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have 4 social media channels and I like that I can schedule the content ahead of time and post it. It makes things much easier for me. I don't love being on social media all day and with Buffer I don't have to be but I can look like I am. :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is an amazing social media organizing tool. Buffer can be used to share content on different social media channels at the same time without logging into respective accounts. Buffer supports multi-media format sharing. All the contents shared using buffer can be tracking using custom URLs. Buffer also provides actionable reports to improve social media activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer does not support Linkedin Groups integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Social Media Marketing is very important in this age. Buffer is an exciting social media tool kit. Its free version is one of the best in the market. Buffer has advanced publishing, engaging, analyzing capabilities. We recommend this tool to all digital marketers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer is a time-saving tool. We are using Buffer to engage with our social media followers. We have integrated Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin handles with Buffer. Without doubt one can say that Buffer is one of the best tool for small and medium scale enteprises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is something I used both personally and professionally. Using Buffer, I scheduled blog posts and tweets to create awareness among my audience. Buffer is great because it keeps updating regularly, so we don't miss any new features that would boost our productivity. Its user interface is transparent, allowing us to engage in the use of the software more fully. A comparison of buffer's pricing with those of its competitors shows that it is cheaper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer extension lags in Google Chrome, despite its great features. Free analytics may make incorrect decisions due to their lack of accuracy. Compared to its premium plans, the basic plan is considerably less helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Staying ahead of the competition is made easier with this software. With buffer, you can work for more clients at the same time. Recommendable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using Buffer, we are able to schedule posts for upcoming future events ahead of our competition. Campaigns can be created to learn more about our customers' preferences and tastes. We create goodwill in the minds of our customers by being able to respond quickly to them. The Buffer statistics allow us to track our own progress on the market. Our performance improved following the implementation of Buffer, and we saw greater profits in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is easy to use for all of your social posting activity, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Nothing really it is so easy to use I don't have any problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It saves me lots of time and I can simply click buffer and go and do something else, the buffer will be working for you in the background Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like how I can manage all my social media accounts at one place & manage and track all the campaigns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Nothing to dislike as of now, buffer is doing a decent job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scheduling & planning social media posts. keeping a track of analytics easily, and being able to manage everything at one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.