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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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945,039 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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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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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?

It let's you set it and forget it. I can set my posts weeks in advanced and not have to worry about them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I really can't think of anything I don't like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

It is a good way to get your thoughts and posts all in one place to share on multiple platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have a lot of footage I need to put on social media, so it really helps to have all that stored and ready to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer now supports scheduling for Instagram, so it's on par with Hootsuite, but it also gives non-profits a 50% discount on services. It's great for publishing and scheduling. Buffer seems to offer a service called Reply that allows listening, which is something we'll need in the future but not right now. I'm happy that they don't bloat the already great scheduling service with other services we don't need yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The free version is not as robust as Hootsuite's free version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Figure out if you need to listen and respond to visitors. If you do you'll want to also look at Buffer Reply. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I need to schedule updates to Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and Buffer is dead simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Absolutely the in-app/in-program button that allows you to schedule an RT. It's ridiculously easy and allows me to pace out my social content at the times I want it to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I don't have too many complaints. Quite happy with it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

What on earth are you waiting for? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to consistently share content during times/days I'm out of office, allowing myself to test the success rates of different posting times and frequencies., etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I liked the fact that Buffer was really glitch-less app. It was well organized so that you could sort your several different media accounts, and also the fact that you could organize into dates. So this way you could really customize your account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I disliked the fact that you couldn't have unlimited posts on the free account, but they sort of baited you by letting you have 30 at a time. I also disliked the fact that you couldnt change something that you just posted via Buffer, and had to go through the Social media site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I would use this instead of Hootsuite and Social booster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving the problem with buffer of tracking my social media analytics and managing accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Is easy to keep social media accounts updated. It has an automated feature for timing social media posts.

Also can initiate a social media post from the webpage of the content currently in. Plus allows you to customize messages for each social media account, so you will not be limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Not as user-friendly for Pinterest. I have found Tailwind to be better for that platform. Also seems to be hit or miss with Instagram posts.

Wish could personalize the features more to what own personal needs are. Hate paying for what I don't need or use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

I feel there are other platforms that are free and work better with different platforms. But for a true all in one organization, Buffer is the better choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work with different venues and help with social media. Instead of traditionally logging in on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and other social media sites, Buffer will do it all at once. It also makes it convenient for users to create posts and have them uploaded with a single click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shannon A.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I like how easy it is to schedule posts across all social accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I wish there was a better comparison of social impact across platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using buffer we are much more efficient with social media. We schedule posts in advance and can analyze what kinds of posts are best for which platforms and see what gets the most interaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

I find it simple to use and that I can manage multiple accounts at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Easily can get more expensive if you’re working within a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Interaction of my customers and keeping them up-to-date on what is new with our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Ability to publish posts from Facebook to all other social media platforms and customize each post on a per-platform basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Limited ability for post types. Sometimes buffer is glitchy and the extension doesn't work properly. Better Instagram posting ability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Make sure it integrates with the platforms you use. Know what problems you need to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Streamlining our social media posting process. Automatically schedule content for all social media platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Samantha R.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

On buffer, you are able to schedule all of your tweets by the hour/minute and date. You can post as many or as little scheduled tweets per day/week. And it makes actualizing your bigger social media picture easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The website only allows you to post certain kinds of photo file formats. Thus GIFs are hard to schedule. But regular JPegs are fine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are actualizing our long term social media marketing goals by using Buffer for Twitter. The benefits are rooted in consistency and landing the voice we wish to portray Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Everything! I love that I can schedule instagram posts seamlessly, along with Facebook and Twitter. This system has saved me SO much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The basic level only allows for 10 posts per platform to be scheduled at one time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Do it! Instagram scheduling is so valuable and will do wonders for your social strategy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social Media post scheduling - it makes it easy to post later in the day and on "off" days, freeing up valuable time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.