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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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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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"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
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like the fact even a non-technical person like me can use it very easily. I can schedule my posts on various social media platforms with ease. You can also engagement statistics, history of your posts, etc on buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer some times get slow or stuck when you try to do multiple things at one time. Otherwise it is an amazing software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you find it difficult to manage your social accounts, then use buffer for your rescue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing social media posts on various platforms can be quite cumbersome. It helps you a lot with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It is a very useful and necessary platform for the administration of social networks, which has a variety of tools, such as adding text to an image and then you can publish them on any social network, providing great support in case you want to ask any questions, also allows the programming of publications in several channels. Its interface is very easy and efficient when using it, which helps users quickly learn how to navigate. And let's not forget its review process, which allows us to review the publications long before its publication, with which we can ensure that the content is consistent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I would like to be able to connect with certain programs more easily, presenting some problems when uploading some images, which in some occasions are not shared with the publication. It would be very appropriate to improve your two-way communication, since it presents failures when it comes to wanting to communicate with users and wish to respond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

From my conception Buffer is an easy to use platform that performs its work very well, it is very suitable for anyone, being able to be used by a professional or beginner, it works very well for small, medium or large companies, ideal for people who want to edit an image for a publication in social networks, I have used it for about three years and it has helped me a lot in my work, in addition to its cost being not very high and being a very intuitive tool, it represents a good investment. Highly recommended for companies that use social media marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Within our organization we use Buffer for the programming and management of multiple social networks. It is used for planning the calendar of publications, which helps us to load all our content. It is used for the review and collaboration of publications, to approve content depending on the level of user. With Buffer we visualize all the publications that were programmed in the different social platforms, which helps us to see if there is a lot of content for a day or not enough. With this tool we attach the social profiles to program the content, which meant a reduction in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

They get line breaks right on Instagram! And they have a new-ish feature where you can create a comment with hashtags as soon as you create the post. It's also super easy to use across multiple channels (IG, FB, Twitter) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

For some reason you can't tag more than 5 accounts when you post through Buffer. Buffer says this is an Instagam rule, but it isn't. It's a strange hindrance for folks who work collaboratively to plan events or host collective events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scheduling to Instagram in particular is much, much faster and easier overall. For Twitter, it's nice that it integrates on the page so you can see a nice post that you want to retweet, but you can schedule it with Buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Really not much when it's so expensive but it's fairly easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

This App is double what it should be priced at! Way too expensive, who's going to pay $1200 US a year to post to a few social media accounts?? Service is awful with unanswered correspondence and condescending responses. So may bugs & problems and unused features that they want us to pay for, STAY AWAY there's much better available for you money and we should know as we've been in the industry for over 20 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can schedule social media posts, just like Apps at 1/2 or 1/4 of the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Multiple Posting at same time and its post scheduling function are great for every social media marketer.

It is Easy to access - It is very simple like facebook. You can also add some hashtags through buffer. Scheduling a post is very easy

Limits of Account - We can use maximum 5 accounts at the same time. If we need to add more accounts. So, we can choose the premium plan.

Support System of Buffer was also helpful

Add maximum 10 post at the same time - At the time of Holidays, It had proved a good source of save energy.

Best tool in the world of Social Media

Buffer is free tool

I didn't use paid version of buffer. But, I read lots of good reviews about it's campaigning services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I didn't find any cons in buffer. When our team faced issues, Buffers provides great technical support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you are managing social media with lots of burden. Use Buffer!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was used buffer in my last company. On that time I was managing G+ account, Facebook, and Twitter with buffer. I was suffering from lots of workload because I was doing SEO and Content Writing mainly. But, increasing a traffic through social media was also my task. So, I was finding the tools for social media and I read some reviews about buffer. I can schedule maximum 10 post. That was the best solution for my social sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Simple to use - Chrome extension is extremely useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Misses advanced features like auto messaging for followers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It is one of the most recommended social media management tools on the market. It is stable and works well. I can manage multiple accounts and multiple clients giving them access to my license building a hook to my clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing social media posts for my company and my clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

vivek b.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

You can integrate each social media account in one app and post at all of them at once. Hassle free posting on all accounts. You can also schedule your post according to your audience engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I am using Android app, It does not have stories posting on the platform for that you have to use social media apps only Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It is just for social media postings. However it lacks various features like posting stories. Also android app logouts from account sometimes.It does not post the images with post on Instagram as it does on Facebook and Twitter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media sharing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like knowing that i have posts taken care of for reaching users in different countries and different time zones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Sometimes it doesnt connect with instagram very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

familiarize yourself with all of the platform as there are products that you may find useful that you didnt intend to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

i dont need to post content on the spot, i can schedule it for when im off the clock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jack S.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love that you can schedule the content on multiple platforms. It allows you to keep all social platforms congruent with the similar content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

So far everything is good other than the photo and video compression aspect. It should auto compress rather than me having to go back and fix it in photoshop of premiere all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Have content folders set aside on your computer. It will make it that much easier when having to locate content and including it on Buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has saved me more time overall. Having to post everyday by hand is no fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love how easy it is to schedule things when there will be decent traffic. It takes the guesswork out of when to post. I also like how it automatically shortens links, has built-in analytics, and avoids signing in multiple places to cross-post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I used to dislike the lack of Instagram integration, but that's improved. That integration still isn't as seamless as the twitter/facebook integrations, but it's getting there. Sometimes Buffer gets weird about images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Take the time up-front to learn the system. It'll make everything easier in the long run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It makes it more expedient to manage social media as a side-job. I have more time to do my main job. It also helps me map out the social media posts for the entire week in one sitting and on one platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.