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It’s been a fun last few weeks here at Buffer HQ and we very happy to announce a brand new plan for you today: The Awesome Plan. We sat down and thought a lot about how we can provide the best product for you. How we can simplify what we have right now and produce a [...]
If you are a die-hard iPhone user and love sharing from the iPhone like me, today is an awesome day for you. Reeder just released a brand new version of their iPhone app, 3.0. What is Reeder? Reeder is an incredibly beautiful and intuitive RSS newsreading app. It is packed with lots of features to [...]
Around 3 months ago, we have opened up the Buffer API to all the awesome app developers out there to build something amazing. And they did! Over a dozen cool integrations have been launched since and lots more are in the pipeline to be unveiled soon. Today, I thought I’d pick three of the most [...]
Today is a big day for us here at Buffer. We are very excited to welcome ShareFeed users to Buffer, and couldn’t be happier that Hiten Shah, CEO of KISSmetrics is coming on board as a mentor and advisor to Buffer. Why ShareFeed? We always are on the lookout to be completely transparent about what [...]
Here at Buffer, we are looking for the best and most awesome new ways for you to share on your social networks. Today, I’m very excited to have a powerful new integration ready for you. Twylah is a service that creates beautiful custom brand pages for your Tweets. And as of this week, you can [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we sat down at Buffer HQ and thought to ourselves: How can we make sharing much smarter and easier than it is now? We realized one thing. Smarter sharing comes with posting algorithms, analytics and other tech improvements. At the same time, talking to lots of your and other awesome [...]
Twitter.com has a gorgeous interface I believe. It is extremely simple, without any bells and whistles. A t the same time, if you are trying to make your workflow more efficient, getting by with just Twitter.com is a little difficult, you probably already know this. As of a few days ago, we have therefore added [...]
Quick update: Big thanks to Anthony Ha over at TechCrunch who wrote a terrific story on us hitting 10,000,000 updates. What an incredible journey looking back. It was a little over one year, in December 2010, that Joel first launched Buffer from his bedroom in the UK. Since then things have changed upside down – [...]
There is a big thing happening right now I believe: the web is going all in with pictures. It’s something you have probably already discovered. Instagram, Pinterest, 9GAG are the top sites who have embraced this and made it super simple to work with pictures in an enjoyable way. At the same time, pictures on [...]
It’s one of those big mysteries that a lot of people on Twitter (myself included) desperately want to know: “When is the best time for me to Tweet?” To get an awesome and accurate answer for this question isn’t always easy. So I am very excited to tell you about an awesome new partnership we [...]