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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
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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 ...
Anne O.
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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...
Cori F.
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Cori F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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?

I have buffer to manage 3 profiles. It is fantastic and easy to use. What I find the best is that you schedule the first comment on an instagram post with hashtags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It gets expensive for people who need to manage more profiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I needed to save time by scheduling content in advance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like the ability to schedule multiple posts across our Facebook and Twitter page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish there was an easier to manage Instagram without having to be logged into the app on my phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The benefits are numerous. I am able to schedule and create content at will. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like to use scheduling and am very happy to use cos it was very good in templates. Also had great presantation in twitter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I was very happy to use Buffer. But 2-3 months ago they made a major update. Now it becomes a unusefull. All the sharing templates are gone, it couldnt find the picture in article. So I stop using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scheduling is very important for me, also sharing with my followers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is good for managing social media accounts like Instagram, where you otherwise don't have an option to queue a post Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

but if it's not a business account with all the necessary accoutrements, you still have to manually click to make the post within the buffer app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Make sure you're aware of what requirements there are for automatic posting - don't go on thinking it'll always work for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allows a full visual of what your post will look like before it goes live so you can edit any faults before posting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron W.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

It's straightforward, it takes just a minute to learn the system and get used tot he interface which is simple and clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It seems like there is always some error or another, there's always a problem with connecting to the channels. There aren't as many options as I would like. There have been some problems of some users on Facebook not being able to see the posts sent through Bugger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

More options, better support when things go wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Posting identical messages on all channels with only one login. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maisie W.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer was one of the only social schedulers that offered all of the platforms we use. The main snag with most of the others was they didn't include Pinterest. I much prefer to have everything in one place! It's also really affordable for small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I do wish they had a different format for each platform, or at least some of them. I ended up switching my Pinterest account to Tailwind, because it's MUCH easier to use and has a way better interface for that. I've had some troubles with Buffer being slow or glitchy lately, so that's been frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Great for maintaining multiple platforms in one place, and easy to use and affordable for small businesses. I may suggest a different platform depending on what social accounts you use. I like that it's simple and uncomplicated, but larger businesses may want more features that what Buffer offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps me keep on my social on track, plan ahead, and not have to worry about it or scramble last minute. It definitely frees up time to focus on other tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alfred Lua of Buffer

Hi, Maisie, thank you so much for your kind review and feedback. If you are up for sharing, I would love to hear how you think we can make Buffer easier to use for Pinterest and what different format you're looking for. My email is alfred@buffer.com. Thanks for the help.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love using Buffer to schedule my social media updates for my business. I use it to schedule posts in advance for Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. I primarily use it to promote blog posts but I have a variety of other categories and it allows me to schedule either one-time posts or evergreen, which is a great feature. It's very easy to set up and use, and it's very affordable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer has everything that I need personally, so there's nothing that I dislike. Some more advanced users or those with a larger business or number of social accounts might want more robust features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It saves me SO much time by allowing me to batch schedule everything I want posted in the coming weeks or months, and especially with the evergreen feature allowing me to recycle posts. I spent maybe 2-5 hours a week adding things and then the rest is totally hands-off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Is a very simple tool, with a good number of options, i really like scheduled posts, is easy to do it. A nice and armonized interface make you easier manage different social media accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I use it on Twitter and you can't manage multiple twitter accounts on free plan (it is very complete for an easy manage of social media) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you want a simple tool for posting in different social networks, this is your product. Dont search more, you will have all you wanted. The best is the very easy to schedule posting, but maybe you will have some problems to configure your facebook and instagram account since facebook bought instagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It solve to us the usual problem of must to learn to use social media management tools before of use it, this tool is very usefull and simple for newbies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alfred Lua of Buffer

Hi, Jorge, thank you for the kind review. Our free plan now allows users to manage three accounts on any platforms so managing two to three Twitter accounts should work fine. Would you be up for tweeting us at @buffer on Twitter if this isn't working for you? Thanks.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like that I can schedule so far ahead and for so many channels. The KPIs and ROIs are easy to read and reports are easy to create. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish sometimes that I could schedule posts for specific times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am also to work on member recruitment, client engagement, visibility and dissemination of ideas. I have increased my client base and my clients are more responsive and interactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer allows me to draft and schedule posts across multiple social media platforms. Rather than logging into each website individually and scheduling posts, I can view a calendar within Buffer and ensure that the same post will go up across Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin - all with one action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer uses pre-determined post times, and while I understand some users need that, I wish the default was to allow me to set my own post time - rather than have to manually change the times for each post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Drafting and scheduling content across multiple platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.