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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
2010
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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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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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"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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Buffer Demo - Reply to comments
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Build a link in bio page in minutes.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is an easy to use content publishing platform. We are able to schedule posts to our different social media platforms in very great way. It's cheaper compared to other competitors inthe market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I have nothing against this application. It's has been serving us in very great way. It's great product I would like to recommend to other interested users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer has enables us to monitor all our social media platforms at one place. It's easy to schedule post using this application. Buffer is aslo very affordable social media management application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

As a media planner, Buffer is a fantastic tool for streamlining planning and creating visually appealing images and posts that increase interaction. They are unquestionably a pioneer in the area, and they frequently provide services that are not even provided by the social networks themselves. They also have developed a number of services to support you in optimizing your pictures and data for social media sites, all of which are backed by extensive research. It's fantastic.

For the past couple of years, I've been using buffer to schedule posts on social media platforms like Facebook & Twitter. It's a simple tool to use. This application allows me to connect all of my social media accounts and plan posts at the appropriate times for each channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

I have used this application to publish content on social networking platforms, and I have had no issues with it. I would recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

If you are serious about managing your social media platforms, then this tool might be really beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This application allows me to save a significant amount of time when scheduling postings for my users on social networks, plus I could also save a significant amount of time when providing an in-depth analysis to my customers. The response on my social media posts has increased as a result of the use of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is a great and easy tool to manage publishing to all my business social media accounts in a few easy steps and I also like that they always improve the platform with different integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

just few things i don't like same as some platforms i just got a reminder to publish my post instead of automatically publishing the post I think its only need more improvements at Apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Buffer:

Buffer is a great tool and more better than other alternatives especially they have a free plan with great feature to start and try their tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it saves a lot of time to manage different social media platforms as I prepare the post one time and Buffer post for all of them in just one action , so it saves more time and effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

It is a handy source to plan ahead for social media content. I also really like that you can plan ahead with stories, however they do not post directly but give you a reminder instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Posts frequently fail and there is always some error coming up. I also get annoyed that you cannot post to more than one platform at once and have to redo each platform. It also often glitches and jumps my cursor so I end up deleting things I don't want to delete Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to plan ahead for the work I do. I can do social media all from my computer rather than my phone and not have to login to instagram every day. I am more efficient with posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lauren R.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Allowed me to schedule social media posts for multiple platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The preview displayed in Buffer did not always match what was published on the social media websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Social media scheduling. Creating social media calendar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devyani S.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

I loved their freemium plan where I can try them without any time constraints with a single media account. Also, they got a pretty good automated scheduling feature for planning ahead for your monthly social media post calendar

Their dashboard is very easy to understand helps me identify daily post metrics at one place without going to their specific social media accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

They add masks on links in captions of posts that makes me annoying as it makes fo9llowers confused whether they are clicking on the right link or not.

Also, their price is not that affordable even if they provide pretty good features but they sometimes fail their promises. Their scheduling toll sometimes reschedule itself some posts that make my campaigns mismatch on the ground. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I and my team manage clients' social media to make their posts roll on time with campaigns. It helps us manage multiple accounts without any hassle and make us take decisions based on analytics and improve further posts resulting in better engagements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The new beta calendar option let me easily move my posts around. It is visually okay. The features are easy to use and easy learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The set up for time of posting is clunky and there is some premium features that should be free, as you see them in the calendar but not in other pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer is perfect to tell me if a tweet is too long or if the picture selected for Instagram isn't the good size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kshitij T.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is an amazing tool for anyone looking to expand their social media reach truly. The Price point is very affordable and the interface is intuitive, even a beginner can figure out. Buffer makes it easy to post content Quickly without having to post manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

The biggest issue with them is they dont provide bitly link shortner from their free plan. While posting content on Social media my work required Links and social media such as twitter restrict characters to post then it might had helped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer is a great app. It has helped me to save a lot of time and manage my social media profile effectively. i used to struggle with juggling all of my accounts- Twitter, Facebook, Instagram but now I just use buffer and it handles everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mustafa  A.
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What do you like best about Buffer?

Buffer is a very good tool when it comes to automation of your post. you can schedule your post for any date and time. Must try it for social media marketting Thank you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Nothing to dislike here. Buffer has many competitor. They are doing good job when it comes to scheduling. Rest nothing much to say. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer is basically helping me in schheduling the post for my client. It helps me with the time and date when I can post on social media platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Buffer?

The ability to track our performance across major social media platforms in real time ,is what I find most interesting about my Buffer experience. The aforementioned is very critical to my organisation , when it comes to measuring the impact of our marketing campaigns and highlighting areas of strength and weaknesses in how we are engaging customers on all social media platforms where we have a presence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Buffer?

Buffer didn't use to support recent social media platforms like Tik-tok and Snapchat. This has since changed and we are now effectively taking advantage of the inherent benefits available on recently popular platforms , like those mentioned above, especially as it relates to connecting with the younger generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Buffer has allowed me plan ahead of time for every activity around social media marketing and engagement within my company, using important automation features such as its scheduled publishing and engagement tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.