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Buffer Overview

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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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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
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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.)
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"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.)
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"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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"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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What do you like best about Buffer?

That I can schedule posts for multiple social media channels in one platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

There are often errors, and posts don't publish when they are supposed to, not super intuitive, hard to add new campaign topics, drafts vs queue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

can save time by being able to schedule posts in one platform... as long as all goes correctly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Post all in one platform, and post building is intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Not a specific package. More pay as you go. Was a bit clunky when using for both my own and clients accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Able to schedule in one location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Easy way to schedule and share important social media posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It does sometimes need to reconnect LinkedIn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

When you need to schedule sharing a post to multiple social media channels same time Buffer is your tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use Buffer to share my business social media marketing posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like how easy it is to create an account and use the scheduling system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I dislike how you can schedule carousel-based posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It's free and you can make as many accounts with as many emails as you want! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm solving a need to be able to schedule IG and FB posts for multiple clients at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

it is simple enough to easily schedule posts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Scheduling/posting stories is only available in the upper payment tiers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use buffer to schedule social media posts. We also use it as a way to share content between team members and easily edit and upload media. It is keeping us accountable to our calendar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is frequently used by me for different projects. It is easy to use. fast account setup and availability of all major social profiles to link.

You can share anything in all the social media platforms immediately. It helps in boosting seo.

Happy to use this project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I found that there is a wide difference in plan rates and they are not made justifiable. The free account has big limitations and even the basic account has only one user restriction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media content sharing in one click.

Helping SMM strategy.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like that I can automate lots of social media posts at the same time. It helps me to save a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I don't have money with the exception of money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am saving time by automating my social media posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Easy integration

Deep insights

Easy schedule of plsts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Limitation of account linking

Upgrade to next version due to the limitation in insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automating the social media posts in different timezones and helping the campaign managers to influence the social media followers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

This product has been incredibly useful to manage multiple accounts. The support blog is fantastic.

Update - recent changes have been disappointing as Buffer leave small users behind for corporate success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Recent upgrades priced me out of the product by doubling the cost.

The Chrome button disappeared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Doubling the price was hard to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Account management. Tracking tools that translate to small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It's nice to be able to schedule ahead of time on multiple platforms in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The scheduling tends to be unreliable; many times a post will miss its schedule and the user doesn't find out until later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using buffer saves time scheduling on social media and allows staff to be offline as needed while still maintaining an active online presence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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