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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
Twitter
@buffer
945,039 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
226 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

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
Get insights and answers to help you optimize your content.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I love that I can post to multiple platforms all at once. I also love being able to schedule tweets, Facebook posts, and Instagram posts. This saves me a lot of time, especially when I need to post outside of office hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I dislike that I cannot directly post to Instagram - it only sends a notification to my phone. However, this is because I was unable to set up a business profile on Buffer for my Instagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving being able to schedule social media posts at a time when more of our users are online versus regular office hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I could schedule out all of my posts at the beginning of the week and wouldn't have to worry about it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Sometimes it was hard to see exactly how the post would look before it went live. Also, sometimes the links I found on Monday would be taken down by the time the post was supposed to go live on Friday and I wouldn't know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I recommend Buffer to anyone who manages several social media platforms and wants to organize them in one easy to use place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can manage multiple social media platforms from one easy platform. I like that I can plan out all of my posts at the beginning of the week and focus on other tasks during my work week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rosie G.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

What I like best about this platform is how many of my business social channels I can cover on one managing platform - including acebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Google+. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish it had better reporting and analytics per platform, especially to see trends overtime on each platform. Also some platforms are easier than others - we never were properly able to link Instagram to it. We could not get our LinkedIn synced as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you're looking for a social media manager just for posting then this is a great tool. But if you want more details and analytics on posts you'll probably have more luck posting onto the platforms themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're using it for time management and being able to post across a number of platforms.

The benefits have mostly been time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Katie H.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

We're a small nonprofit agency, and we couldn't afford some of the big-name social media managers. Buffer is free (yep, free) for up to three social media accounts and up to ten posts. It's been a lifesaver! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish I could schedule more than 10 posts out. It's great for Facebook and LinkedIn, but it's tough to get a good handle on Twitter posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Do it! It's a huge time saver! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm spending less time scheduling social media because I can do it all in one platform. And, with the Buffer tool in Google Chrome, I can schedule content with just a click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

how easy it is to schedule content across multiple platforms for very specific times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

the restrictions on posting Instagram "carousel" or multiple photos feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

GO for it. they have a fantastic podcast too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a time saver to get our content to our followers. I can customize hashtags, captions, pics, etc for ea platform all from the same post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David L.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is the ideal tool to start managing your social networks. Its free plan allowed me to get to know this tool better, and since I only managed three social networks, it suited me very well. The ability to schedule up to 10 posts allows you to save a lot of time and dedicate it to other things within your job. Its web interface is very easy to handle, so I barely lost time getting to know it. Its mobile application for both iOS and Android is also easy to use. Lastly, it is worth mentioning that you can create and edit images with this tool, something that few social media management tools have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Perhaps if you have more than 3 social networks, or managing social networks is something essential and important in your company, the free plan may fall short of features, so you will need to use a paid version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

"Manage your social networks and save time at your workplace, this is an ideal tool for it." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With this tool, you can stay up to date when it comes to social networks, have greater contact with your customers, know their concerns, their complaints... etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thanks for the kind review, David!

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Nothing. Never got buffer to work for me. spent countless hours trying to get it to work. Immense aggravation.

DO NOT BUY! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Horrible customer support, confusing instructions. Glitchee. Never sure if it was going to post to social media sites. Good concept. Terrible execution. Do no buy unless you want high blood pressure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My personal aggravation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer enables me to draft and schedule content across platforms, tag partners, and manage my social media campaigns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Unpaid version does not allow me to schedule ONE post for multiple platforms. I currently have to copy and paste posts onto separate platform calendars. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Consider paid features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scheduling social media posts for twitter, facebook, and linkedin. Allows me to schedule across platforms on one website, rather than jumping from facebook, to twitter, to linkedin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It was very easy to use, I was able to use it for social media posting and it would directly post photos onto our Business instagram profile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I didn't like that you couldn't auto publish videos using this platform. It was only able to send notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media calendar planning. It helps keep your content organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mercedes V.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

The speed or ease of use. I can use it on various social networks, the extension for my Google Chrome browser makes it easier to share my blog posts on WordPress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

That the free version is so limiting, before I could do other functions but then they removed them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Download the extension for Google Chrome from the add-ons store https://chrome.google.com/webstore Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The dissemination of content through Twitter to support Social SEO from Twitter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.