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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
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
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 ...
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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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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 have enjoyed the free plan for almost 2 years and I must say that it is more than enough for all the needs I have had. I can publish to 3 of the most important social networks, on a scheduled basis, and with great control over the look of my publications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I think that the publishing interface could be a little more intuitive. It's not bad at all, but I thingthere are room for improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Give Buffer a try. It's so easy to set up that you could be posting in 3 major social media in just minutes. You are going to love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media publishing is a tricky matter. With Buffer you can schedule all your future posts even at specific time. For me, that means pace of mind to don't forget publish anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is a software designed to program your publications in your social networks or computer platforms, allowing you to stay connected in some without neglecting the others, this wonderful and ingenious tool allows you to manually or automatically program when you will make the publications, also see who likes your posts and follow them up. Currently this tool has the possibility in its free version to connect with three social networks, whatever you want, that is, you can connect with Facebook, Instagram, twitter, google and all its tools, LinkedIn among others. Another advantage that I could see in this application is that you can do everything directly from the cloud, this means that there is no need to save anything but it is done automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The platform seems a bit heavy, although the visualization of the tool is simple and practical, when entering any data, the process is very slow, that is, you must be waiting for the option to load Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

For professionals it is wonderful, you can manage some applications on the web or all if you pay for a version with more benefits that is to say with unlimited accounts, and the prices are accessible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is good for when you work in the area of social media marketing but for home use it is not highly recommended, since you only have three applications, although of course you like to share in all your social networks, and let's say most of the time only you use Facebook, you can use this tools for email applications or even keep your LinkedIn account active, it has its benefits if used creatively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The group scheduling feature is the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Using it since a year nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

A very good tool. Go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scheduling 28 Pages in one go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Love how it allows you to compile and schedule social media posts for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even Instagram all in one place! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

How it doesn't directly post to Instagram sometimes-it only sends a reminder with the caption +visual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Buffer is not complete social media management tool with listening, engagement and monitoring features along with the post scheduling aspect. Buffer only has post scheduling so of you need a complete social management tool then Hootsuite or Agorapulse is where you need to look! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media content development is a ongoing challenge and needs to be addressed everyday, so Buffer helps us organize, schedule and post to multiple networks in one shot! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

We use it to schedule our social media post across different channels ( Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin ) well ahead. Great organization tool and allows easy queuing, re-ordering and good consolidated overview of what posts are going out in the next few weeks. Price is extremely reasonable as well.

Design-wise, it also support GIFs and Videos and allow good preview ahead of publishing. The UI is great for beginners, with easy learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The tools is generally great, however, there are times when I have to re-login again instead of staying logged in to the social media accounts I am managing (at least for a period of time) which is quite frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy scheduling and management of social media accounts for company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

What I like most about buffering is that it helps me to stay connected to my social networks even when I'm too busy with the day. If you're a marketing expert, you'll know the most recommended hours to get fans, but if you don't, this site gives you tips so you know the right hours for more people to get what you post. This platform includes a free (of course limited) version where you can connect up to three social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn among other sites, you can register very quickly and easily, and of course, as you need more options you can buy your packages up to $10 a month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

That mobile version is not as complete as the tablet version i.e. you wont have every view of a choices this may lead to disadvantages when you choose to use the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

This is perfect because you are always busy and involved on social media because if you have a freetime at any time of this week, it can plan the first message. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It promotes my being able to exchange information on my social networks when im involved in other events or projects because my job keeps me constantly busy often i ignore for instance my twitter and my facebook sites that i use most frequently but this tool has made it easy because i hardly have the programming time and the app does it by itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Very easy to schedule social posts across multiple platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

We used the free account so obviously limited features.

Many times would schedule a post and it either wouldn't post (especially on LinkedIn) or would drop the link and link preview (especially on Twitter and Facebook). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you need a tool with more features/more reliable, Hootsuite or HubSpot might be better options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It made scheduling social posts for four platforms much simpler than going to each network individually. Could move through my tasks more quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like how visual Buffer's scheduling platform is. It allows me to see text and pictures for each post. I also appreciate how I am able to create hashtag sets for the Instagram accounts I manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

When you're not in an account manager position, your access is limited, but one of those limiters is rescheduling posts. So, if I were to want to reschedule a post that has already been approved for being published, I would have to delete that post instead of rescheduling it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This is a great platform to publish content through. When content doesn't get published (some sort of malfunction) a notification is sent to alert you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Very easy to use, simple integration, handy mobile app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Not its fault, but scheduling to Insta isn't ideal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Make sure you understand insta scheduling! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very easy to schedule posts across platform, changing images etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The best feature of a Buffer is that it allows adding all most all types of famous social media accounts within a single dashboard for their better management. Also, post creation and scheduling feature is another beautiful feature of this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer does not have a media library that would help the user to choose from various generic graphics and images while drafting any social media posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Buffer, we are now able to manage all our social media profiles and pages from a single dashboard. While using this application, it is flexible to draft and schedule posts as per our requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.