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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
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945,458 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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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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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
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What do you like best about Buffer?

We have 23 different social media accounts across different regions, between Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I love being able to not only schedule future posts, but to be able to schedule the same content across multiple accounts is perfect. Customer service is top notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

If I find a typo after I've scheduled the posts, I need to go into each individual scheduled post and fix it. It would be nice to be able to fix all at once. Also, it's a little limited as to WHAT you can post, just images/videos to your timeline. No polls, no stories, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer has drastically cut down the time that we spend on social media posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It is a very easy-to-use tool, you will hardly lose time learning to handle it. The power of its analytics is impressive, and even in its free version, you can see data about Retweets, Likes, Mentions, etc., that each post you have made has received. The Schedule option is very useful for posting at the same times and the same number of posts per day. In this option, I also receive information through a graph about what time is best to post to have a larger audience or engagement. To conclude, it is a cloud-based and online app with which you can work from any device and anywhere without needing to save changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The tool is in English, but it is very intuitive and you will not have problems with the language. As the main disadvantage, I would say that you cannot tag the photos; you have to do it from the social network's page, but it is not a serious problem either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Buffer is a very useful tool that allows you to have an active presence on social media without needing to be glued to them all day. If you want to save time by scheduling your social media posts, this is the best tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allowed me to free myself from some of the workload and plan when I wanted to publish, without needing to be connected at that moment. I was able to invest that time in other tasks I needed to perform and continue having an active presence on my company's various social profiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I honestly didn’t like much about buffer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wanted the app to just post the things instead of reminding me to post them it was almost the same as if I just did no work before hand anyway to me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This does not post on your behalf just redirects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I wanted to solve the problem of scheduling posts for Instagram Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Being able to implement my online presence through one application and being able to set schedule for each platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Instagram was very difficult to post to automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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You have to post Instagram posts on your own versus scheduling it through the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has increased my reach in my target audience and has helped with ideas to implement for future projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harsh H.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

If you are maintaining a social media calendar for your company, this tool is one of the best in the market to schedule and analze the performance of SMM posts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Paid version of this tool is a bit overpriced otherwise free tool is okay for fewer Platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease in scheduling of social media posts

Easy to view analytics

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I think that Buffer, once you get the hang of it, can be very convenient and pretty quick to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

A lot of things. They have recurrent "unknown error" issues where posts will fail (especially Instagram), the link shortening will override your text even if you selected "unshortened", you have to know exactly where to click if you want to post to multiple platforms at the same time (not very intuitive), and tagging is near impossible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Take time to consider ease of use. This software is meant for convenience, but you really have to watch it all the time to make sure it's even working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were happy to have a way to share and customize content across platforms. We could schedule, and move on with other tasks! Unfortunately though, we couldn't always trust it to schedule correctly, so we were always double checking posts anyways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Digital Editor for Age Concern Colchester & NE Essex
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What do you like best about Buffer?

The analytics function which will give information on posts other forums won't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The bugs which freeze out your work without warning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

A bug on buffer keeps freezing my work, how can this be ruled out? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can schedule are posts at the right time during the day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I truly like the likelihood that it offers me to have all that I need in one spot to improve my work and better. Buffer removes such a great amount of exertion from continuous internet based life posting. It permits with a tick and a couple of expressions of subtitle to post to one website or many, one page or many, on a pre-set or "next up" plan so you never need to stop what you're doing to share a site to your profiles. It deals with the post times, the line, the position, even the investigation of how your posts perform over the majority of your social locales. Their blog alone merits buying in to - stuck with valuable and engaging tips for augmenting your outcomes, and the free form can be extremely useful for startup pages or social lovers. However, when you're not kidding about posting for your business, the paid plans make the change to "proficient online networking advertiser" extremely consistent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

There's very little I don't care for. As I referenced, they've been making ordinary enhancements to stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

We're constantly glad to be related with organizations which treat their clients well. Buffer gives an amazing and valuable item, yet the organization works on an arrangement of consumer loyalty in front of benefits. A formula that must be fruitful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer enables me and my colleagues to oversee and team up via web-based networking media content administration and booking. It's helped us oversee social listening where we can get on negative remarks/audits rapidly. I've spared a lot of time by utilizing Buffer to make distinctive varieties for web-based social networking stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love that I can see far into the future and do the work now, so that I can let me social be a back thought rather than stressing ever day about posting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

If you are using any other google extensions, it will usually affect Buffer working. But you can just use an incognito window so it's not a huge deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Check it out! It has worked great for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have loved being able to have all my social channels in one place and be more organized. I hated having 6 different tabs open at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

We use buffer for our nonprofit and love it. It is easy to use, saves us time and we get a 50% discount because of our nonprofit status. This means our plan costs $7.50 a month which is definitely worth it. We have improved our efficiency of social media management and love buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I honesty can't think of anything. Buffer does everything we need! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed to schedule content in advance and have one place to do it all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.