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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.


Seller Details
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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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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 ...
Anne O.
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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...
Cori F.
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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?

Posting is simple. Upload your photo, add your text, schedule your post, and you are done. Doing all of that is incredibly easy to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The problems that I had with Buffer was more to do with setup and posting to multiple sights. Trying to setup my Instagram account was a nightmare, and one account could not be set up at all because of an issue with Facebook. With some of the posting software that I have used, you can post to multiple sites in one post. In Buffer, I had to post to each individual site. With the ability now to schedule posts to share to FB and Instagram from FB business suite, it completely eliminated my need to use Buffer altogether. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

None. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhadkan S.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

It is very easy with just one click i can share my content across all the platforms and i cam also schedule my posts.also one benefit is that it allow to post on pinterest as well.also it has a tool which help to create and edit picture before scheduling or uploading it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The thing which i dont like about it is that it does not include instagram and it has no integration to it which means i cant post and schedule posts on isntagram.also there are no tools for mentioning and hashtag over their. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Right now i am using buffer for scheduling my posts on facebook and on twitter not just for me but for my company as well and i used to handke different account for my clients where buffer is very much helpfull. Also from buffee i can see the analytics that how much engagement i am getting for all the posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It allows me to schedule and manage posts for different social media profiles at a single window. The preview option is useful to see how your posts will look like once it get posted. For Instagram, you can schedule a first comment to be posted on the actual post which is helpful to target the hashtags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The pricing is a bit high for someone who is just starting his business and wants to promote business online. Also, most of the tasks can be manually done on social media platforms. Basically, Buffer is to provide ease in digital marketing efforts. You can do most of things manually, obviously it will take time and efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Time management. You can schedule for different social media platforms from a single web browser window. As they say, time is money, you can utilise the time saved in other business activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like how easy Buffer is to use and how effective it is at scheduling out posts — you can see everything in one place and move things around too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Sometimes Buffer won't notify you if a post fails to upload — you have to manually check on Facebook Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's much easier to schedule out a ton of posts on Facebook versus just going on Facebook and scheduling through their system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

scheduling gives you a global overview of your social media strategy and its cohesiveness on all social media sites, centralizes all your social media for everyone on the team to work on, very intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

the free plan is good but still limited and given their price, paid versions are really targeted at companies with money, not non-profits or student societies; randomly disconnects from the social media site; no explanation for why some posts fails randomly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

great for planning out your social media strategy at one time and scheduling it over several months Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The best part is tool is very robust. We can login at one place and easily update the post and also set the time. The post will get updated on your selected social platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I don't find anything in the app to dislike, have been using from the last 2years for my clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy posting, save my time, can easily set time for social post, can post on diff platform. Can easily manage accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I really like being able to use buffer to schedule out social media posts so I don't always have to post in the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The free option is great, but I wish it included a few more channels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solving time management problems because I'm able to schedule posts and know that they'll go out on time, instead of having to manually log in and post each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It makes it easy to set up Tweets and other social networks in advance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It isn't the best in dealing with issues when Hootsuite is much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scheduling tweets and other social media posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Automating the entire process makes it easy to plan and schedule on social media. Especially when you are managing multiple accounts and do not have a dedicated resource. By using this tool, I can spend more time of strategizing and less time implementing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

UX can be better. And they had a feature back when they launched to add rss feeds for content resharing which was great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media management has become very organized and easy to handle. Saves me a lot of time and keeps it organized. It has also helped me optimize the social media strategy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.