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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
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
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945,458 Twitter followers
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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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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?

The ease of use (especially with the Chrome extension!), the sleek UX, the weekly social media report card emails, the customer support ... all of it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The only feature I am hoping for is an easier way to repost existing posts to other channels - rather than copy and pasting. Other than that it's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Take a tour of the product to learn all the features so you can really get the most of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing our social media channels across teams and across time zones. It's helped us organize and post more efficiently! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The ability of post content on multiple platform from one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It could provide more data and insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you want content on multiple platforms, this is the tool for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a marketing specialist, I had to post content on multiple platform, and with buffer I had one tool which helped me post content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love the ease of switching between social accounts and quickly customizing content for each channel. I also like that I can use it for free and still get the main functionality that I need (scheduling posts in advance, according to a schedule). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The free version does limit the number of accounts you can connect, so if you're hoping to use this for all of your social accounts (or on behalf of a client) you'll have to pay. But it's a fair exchange for the functionality you do get, and they can't give everything away for free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

The paid version isn't too expensive, and gives you a ton more functionality, so I recommend it if you or your business is a heavy social media user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing social media content, posting it regularly (and automatically) on a schedule. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like being able to schedule posts at different times pretty far into the future for multiple accounts and the ability for multiple users to schedule on our buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Whenever a post was moved or deleted from a time slot and someone created a new post it would autofill into the newly empty post. Also that adding a new post slot for a certain day seemed to permanently add it to that weekday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It may work for some folks, could be best for one admin instead of multiple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It was good to be able to see everything everyone was scheduling so that we could fix any staff errors or typos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It is very easy to use, and interact. I have 3 social media accounts linked and it works like a charm, including Instagram that is very restrictive. Both web and app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It is quite confusing (from the social media apps) to know what is triggering what. Buffer does not help on clarifying that either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you manage mainstream social media accounts and have a plan (timeline, future posts) Buffer works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media presence, cheap and professionaly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It's very simple to use. The layout is great and it's very easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It often has issues with posting, but does nothing to remedy the situation. Also, I have had to reconnect my accounts multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Do not add too many accounts at once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The issue of having to manually post each time on social media. Also, since you can't post on Instagram from a computer, it makes everything a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Schedule social media posts at the best times according to audience even when we are sleeping... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Seriously I didnt find any cons in Buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Simple to use, Easy to understand and smooth UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media page management and post scheduling and analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The automation of social media posts, very simple interface that's user friendly, even for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Automation isn't quite perfect yet, and the placement of the "Share Now" button is a little too close to the close button when using the editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Not have to rush or skip posts on days where I may be out of the office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like that there is an app, so I can check and edit things on my phone and post manually if I need to. I can get all my posts in Buffer at the beginning of the week and know that everything will get posted on time and at the optimal hour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I don't like that there are picture size maximums and that I can only post on Instagram once a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Use it! It's really easy to use and does everything you could possibly need it to do. The app is easy to navigate and helps keep me organized on the go. I have recommended Buffer to multiple people and they all love it. It makes the like of a social media marketer much easier!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to get all my work for the week done on Monday morning and not have to worry about posting manually every day. I am able to use my time more wisely throughout the rest of the week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It’s a greasy way to have things you create in advance post at chosen and higher traffic times - streamlines your day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Had some issues with cross posting on more than one platform - not frequent but still a thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solving needing to be a slave to social media in order to stay top of mind with my clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.