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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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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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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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"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.
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?

Schedule posts, track the performance of your content, and manage all your accounts from a single place. Unlimited free plan. The team management feature has allowed multiple people to post from the same account, perfect for a multi-person marketing team. Very optimal applications on both Android and iOS. Lastly, I highlight Buffer's ability to edit and create images, something unique in this type of application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Few features in the free plan although you can enjoy it indefinitely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

A perfect tool for managing your social networks, intuitive and easy to use that will allow you to better understand your customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The benefits, all of which represent managing your company's social media from an easy and simple tool that allows you to save a lot of time in your daily work. To know my clients better, understand their concerns, and resolve their doubts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Great tool to have a one single place where you can schedule all your posts for weeks or months to come. Great to schedule but also great to help you analysed the results from the post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Not always easy to add a new social media platform.

Also occasionally the post stop being publish as the social media platform has to be reactivated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I would recommend Buffer to any social media manager. The tool will help you to organise, schedule and manage your posts for different social media platforms in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Help you to organise.

One place to manage all social media platforms.

Provides you analytics on the post performances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

feature to post the same content to multiple platforms. It also provides an option to manage the posts that has be posted to social apps.

It also gives you an option to track number of views on each posts you have posted using buffer.

I have multiple accounts in different platforms and i just select the accounts to post to and fills my content it takes care of posting it to all selected platforms.

It also gives you option to schedule a post at a specific time and date. It will just fires the post at that time to the selected platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Its nothing serious dislikes, it would be more good if it also provides an option for direct messages also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It makes life more easier, simple and allows to post in different platforms and multple accounts.

It also gives you an option to track number of views on each posts you have posted using buffer.

I have multiple accounts in different platforms and i just select the accounts to post to and fills my content it takes care of posting it to all selected platforms.

It also gives you option to schedule a post at a specific time and date. It will just fires the post at that time to the selected platform.

These are wondefull features that we can consider using buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Posting the same content on different accounts over different platforms, managing them.

We can also check the insights of views, reached to, and many. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

This program allows you to do a whole week's worth of social media posting in just minutes. It's nice that Instagram is also included in the channel options, since they don't offer scheduling through their app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I've come across a few flaws while using the program, it doesn't notify you via email if there is an issue with the post which can be frustrating. With Instagram scheduling you can't schedule posts with multiple photos, which is a shame. The requirements for the Instagram photo dimensions are also a pain. If your photo isn't the right size there isn't any easy way to resize it within the program to the right dimensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The program definitely helps save time so that you don't have to constantly be posting every day. It's also super helpful when you need to schedule posts in different time zones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

One of the reasons I use Buffer is because it allows me to have an enviable convenience to send or publish content on multiple social platforms. In addition to this, if I have any questions about the program, there is no concern about, since it has relatively efficient support in terms of case resolution. Another element to highlight is that it is very easy to use, the free version is very complete but for a more dynamic and totally powerful functions the paid version is the ideal one, besides its cost is not so expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

A small headache of this program is that it would be ideal your reports to work best, I explain, the idea of having a complete report is that you get a proper analysis according to the social network or platform where Buffer is being executed, what happens is that The analysis is not complete, what Buffer did to solve this mishap was to add a report analysis tool which is paid, which makes it a bit difficult for people or companies with limited budgets. Another triggering factor is that the price structure, although it is not expensive in general terms, there are functionalities that must be acquired by canceling these costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I highlight this program in order to give Buffer a good reputation so that the whole community and colleagues join with their services. It is ideal to promote its products or services without many obstacles on different platforms, social networks is a purely commercial ally and this program with its characteristics you can take full advantage to be able to have the necessary scope in its publications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The marketing department is using this tool to manage social networks with a lot of professionalism. It has also helped us to have a significant reach of the publications, having a resounding success when programming with certainty the content in each social network. We are happy to have a program aligned to the development of online and digital marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

My favorite feature is the notifications i get when it's time to post! I don't have to do anything else, I just click on the notification, confirm that I want to post and it goes straight away. It now has a feature to automatically post, which I'm still trying to get used to, we'll see about that later on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Nothing so far, I've been using buffer for about three years now and it's always worked well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Highly recommend trying this software! Comes in both web and app so you can easily manage things on whatever device you're using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We usually do photoshoots and gather pictures to be posted every 2 or three days on our social media accounts... Buffer makes it easy to schedule them and even write the caption/text that goes along with the photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like the simplicty of this tool with which I can easily schedule posts across all social platforms. I can connect all my important social media accounts such as twitter, facebook and Instagram on it and it smoothly schedule it on social media. The analytics feature let us know how our social media posts are going. We can also figure which time is working best for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

This tool works best for our team and we have no issues with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

This tool works best for small teams and we have a small set of team so with this tool we can manage everything easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This tool is helping us to schedule posts on social media that save our time and also we can save a lot of our time and our social media engagement has increased Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like the newest feature - being able to schedule stories. I find that other scheduling software does not have this, which to me is insane. This allows you to be able to lay out a calendar of reminders via the stories tool on IG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I don't like the pay for more features situation. I am a small business who is one employee, not a corporation. I feel like being able to have a full set of tools at a small business-friendly price would be fair. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Make sure to choose the right pay bracket for you and highlight what is important to your business when using social media for promotional efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to set out calendars for social media so that everything stays consistent and constantly updated. I can easily cross post and stay on top of my analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The best part about this software is that it allows the maintenance of multiple social accounts at one place and the level of ease to manage even 10-15 accounts is really high. This software is so well designed making is easy to access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The phone app for Buffer has a lot of room for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing multiple accounts on the phone and scheduling multiple posts a day without having to worry about checking them again and again if they have been posted. I am totally able to Buffer to post right on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer helped me organise my social media calendar, and more important, helped me stick to my social media calendar. It is easy and straight-forward to use, and reliable at the same time. Also, I find it a very affordable platform when talking about pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It is lacking some 'internationality'. Facebook Posts in multiple languages are a great tool from Facebook, but can't be used through Buffer. It will post your post as scheduled, but any supplementary features from the social media channels like multiple languages, but also things as Carousels etc can not be used and still will need to be posted manually. The same is true for LinkedIn. If you want to post into a group, then Buffer can not do this for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you need an affordable tool to help you organise and automate your social media posts in an easy way, then Buffer is for you. But bear in mind you will not able to use any special publishing features offered by the Socila Media channels themselves like posting in multiple languages, using carousels or diashows etc., or in the case of LinkedIn - post to groups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To organise my Social Media posting schedule in the most time-efficient way and to motivate myself to stick to it, always making sure my posting calendar is well filled and consistent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.