April 25th, 2013

Buffer Scheduling Service Now Making Over $100K In Monthly Revenue, With 600K Users Sending 5M Updates Per Month

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Social network scheduling startup Buffer continues to grow, and is now on track to make over $1 million in annual revenue with over $100,000 coming in from clients per month. The company now has over 600,000 users, and over 10,000 paying users as of this month, signalling significant growth from December of 2012, when it had 400,000 total users, and a third of its current social shares per month. → Read More

December 11th, 2012

With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site

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Buffer, the social media manager that allows you to schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, is today launching a redesign of its service on both web and mobile. The updates, six months in development, are meant to increase focus on analytics and third-party integrations, encouraging users to post to Buffer across the web, instead of visiting the website itself. → Read More

September 19th, 2012

Hold The Front Page (‘Til Later): Buffer Partners With News Curation Service Scoop.it

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Courtesy of a new partnership with Buffer, users of the ‘make-your-own-online-magazine’-styled service, Scoop.it, can now schedule social media updates at the same time as they curate their topic-based news. As is now traditional with just about every new Buffer integration, I’m told that the tie-in with Scoop.it was a much requested feature by users.

Buffer CEO, Leo Widrich, writes… → Read More

August 1st, 2012

Social Media Manager Buffer Opens API To Developers, Looks To Become “Widespread Sharing Standard”

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Buffer, a social media manager that aims to become a “widespread sharing standard,” opened its API to developers today.

Buffer lets users post to their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts (Google+ isn’t as lenient with its API) and offers the usual array of analytic feedback. However, its focus on non-original content sharing, especially photos, videos and articles, and individual… → Read More

May 3rd, 2011

Buffer schedules 100,000 tweets – I'll tell you about it later

Buffer, the app that makes it easy to schedule tweets, has announced that its users have sent 100,000 tweets in just four months since launch.

That’s a number, however, that’s hard to put into context perhaps, given that the service actively encourages more tweeting, albeit in a way that’s designed to annoy your followers less, but it does indicate traction for the bootstrapped startup. In… → Read More