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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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Year Founded
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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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Build a link in bio page in minutes.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

It's a good tool for a easy use of it, it has an easy and very intuitive interface, really like it for post in all social media accounts same content or make visible content for some target. You can customize messages for each social media account, so you will not be limited for that twitter's limit of characters on Facebook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It hasn't a lot of functions, so it's just for a easy use of it, their stats are not very good, are simple and poor of bias for understand better your public. Have some bugs on Twitters' profile pic and connecting with Instagram, so must be a bit annoying don't use all functions correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you want something fast, cheap and with not so much difficult, take this one, however if you want some tool complete and with a lot of features, this isn't maybe your best choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our needs of a organizated posting on social media, it solved our problem about that. So if you want just a easy and basic tool for organice your social media posting, this will be a great solution, you will not have a lot of functions on it but for start in this world, it will be a good choice, also have a free plan so you don't must to pay for use their basic service, allowing you to test it before waste money on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alfred Lua of Buffer

Thank you for the kind review and feedback, Al. I'm glad to hear that Buffer is able to solve your social media posting needs. If you don't mind sharing, I would love to hear what other functions you are looking for in the tool to understand how we can improve. Thank you.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer bring a new way of social media marketing. With Buffer we were able to mange various social media account from a single place. Buffer is easy to use and very fast. With just one click we can post the content on different social media platforms. Buffer is a secure tool and we had never any issue while using it. Best tool to increase social media platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer helped us in increasing social media presence on different platforms and we never had any issue with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer helps us in managing the various social media accounts from a single place. Using Buffers is easy and secure. Buffer post the content on different within few seconds. Due to buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer saves me time because I can schedule posts in advance all at once, rather than having to go into Instagram or Facebook every time I want to post something. It also gives me a clear way to look at all my recent posts on different platforms, so I can make sure I have enough variety in my copy and that I didn't accidentally post something twice or post too often. It's also just extremely easy to use with a really clean, user-friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The only thing I dislike is that Buffer won't let you click on the current date to schedule something, because it recognizes the whole current date as in the past. In order to schedule a post on the day of, you have to first click on a future date, and then manually edit the date afterwards. It took me awhile to figure out you could do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Business problems we solve is time constraints! We are student-run, so the ability to schedule posts in advance is critical. Benefits we've realized is simply that our social media is much more clean, organized, and up-to-date because we can stay organized and ahead of schedule with Buffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The Buffer system is a simple to use option for creating scheduled posts across several of the most important Social Media Platforms in existence, this includes Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many more! The analytics system also tells you what the best success your posts have across all the platforms you are sharing on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I dislike some of the limitations at a free level, especially since it did not use to be as limited as it is now. Still very well worth the investment though. Being limited to only 8 social accounts altogether is also a bummer even when having premium because as a Brand Manager that can mean having several buffer accounts / subscriptions for individual brands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I would strongly recommend starting off with the free version of buffer, does it fit the flexibility you need for your brand? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I often don't have time to once a day manage social media, with buffer I can spend a day scheduling out several weeks worth of posts! This is especially convenient when I want to share the same post across several platforms because I can choose all the platforms I want to share on, and hit submit to all of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The ease of use and ability to send post to multiple platforms with the touch of one button! It's an app packed full of practical features such as queuing, putting post up for review if you're collaborating with a team, but one of the most awesome features that makes this all worth it is the analytics function. This allows you to view the overall response and performance of your posts form the various platforms chosen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

It's limiting with the amount of social media platforms (choices) that you can manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you just use the basic platforms such as facebook, instagram, linkedin, twitter, Google+ & pinterest then it's a fantastic tool! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The ability to dramatically save time and pressure with making sure each post is properly crafted. Allowing you to just type a post once and have it delivered to all the supported social media platforms of your choice and the added option to have analytics is a dream come true! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

That I am able to schedule reminders on posts for easy and quick posting on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

That the posts cannot be automatically posted on the basic free version. It would be so much better if posts were automatically posted. Also, the app takes a little getting used to, its not seamlessly designed to be user friendly. I wish there was the possibility of previewing the post on the profile and how it would look on the feed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving the problem of posts not being made because I am not in the office at the times they should be posted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like the feature to schedule for coming time, tag the people, URL Shortening and Image Suggestion too. These features allow me to schedule my posts by using different techniques to check insights too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Sometimes it won't allow me to upload a picture, just show only "you can't upload this image". It looks weird when there is no option to change the image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Must Use to Manage your social media marketing in right direction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer helps us to do the best use of social media and no need to worry about the postings. by using this tool we are able to save our time. You guys must use this tool to speed up your business goals in social media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

We use Buffer to get reminders about our social media posting and it works great! Recently they implemented an update so that the posts go automatically to social media (but it's not perfect - see dislikes). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The most recent update has glitches so that the posts do not post at all to Instagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I'd recommend trying it at least once to see how you personally enjoy it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's easier for us to run our social media campaigns when we have a product that reminds us to post to social media or does it for us, especially when we're out of office like on the weekends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is so easy to use - I can schedule posts from desktop and mobile quickly. Plus, you can schedule retweets! You can bulk upload posts using another tool, like Bulk Buffer (not associated with Buffer). I use it for scheduling LinkedIn, Google+, and Twitter posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer isn't the best for Pinterest or Instagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I recommend using Buffer to schedule LinkedIn, Google+, and twitter updates. I do not recommend it for Pinterest, Facebook, or Instagram. Use a tool like IFTTT or Zapier to collect your posts in a spreadsheet. Edit/update those and then you can bulk upload those posts into Buffer, using an external tool like Bulk Buffer, to schedule literally 100s of posts in one sitting. Buffer is a phenomenal value and easy for any to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can schedule a bunch of tweets and updates at once and then use the shuffle feature to rearrange them in different orders on each account. In minutes I can schedule a weeks' worth of social media updates. Buffer allows you to quickly and easily connect accounts, change your posting schedule, and add content from anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is one of those companies that obsess over their users. In addition to having the best social media scheduling & management tool on the market, they also have great customer support. Buffer is also an open company which means that they share their revenues, salaries and expenses online. They are all remote and they are a role model for companies who want to do good in the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish they had better integration with Instagram but I think they are limited by API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can schedule social media posts in advance (including videos and photos). They also make it easy to post to more than one account at once. Buffer Reply allows me to reply and engage with customers within Buffer so that's convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.