Scheduling posts

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Scheduling your social media posts couldn't be easier! Our vision is for users to have a unique voice on social media, and to be able increase engagement and reach of posts by targeting the message to the right audience on...

Darcy Peters | @ Buffer

With TikTok direct scheduling, you can easily upload your media and text to Buffer, schedule when you'd like to share your post, and Buffer will publish your post to TikTok at the time and date you've scheduled. If you're ...

Darcy Peters | @ Buffer

Sometimes the pictures we take require a few tweaks to get them ready for the eyes of our followers. Why not save time by making those tweaks right within your Buffer composer?  Before we get started... 💡Just need a point...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

When scheduling posts, the options for including media will vary depending on the social network you're sharing to. The table below outlines the types of media you can include for each network, as well as how many images y...

Lexi | @ Buffer

Research has found that TikTokers are 1.5x more likely to immediately buy something they’ve found through the app. Not sure how to integrate TikTok into your social media plan? Check out our Ultimate TikTok Marketing Guide...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Social media marketing is no longer just about posting, say, twice a day, five days a week. Top marketers plan their social media content in terms of campaigns. These campaigns usually have a goal (e.g. to promote your Chr...

Darcy Peters | @ Buffer

This guide outlines best practices when it comes to using hashtags within your posts as well as good to knows around when and how Buffer will autocomplete hashtags. This article contains the following sections: How hashta...

Jess Williams | @ Buffer

There are times when you'll want to callout another social account in your posts. These are sometimes called "at mentions," "@mentions," or "tags." This article will explain more about mentioning other accounts in your pos...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

There are two ways to share videos to your social channels through Buffer. The first way is to upload your video within the composer and the second way is to share a link to the video. This guide provides an overview of ho...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

In this guide, we’ll share basic information about the recommended sizes and formats you should use for your images when crafting your posts for each social channel we support. We’ll also give you tips on how to improve th...

Heather-Mae | @ Buffer

Currently, it is possible to add alt text to images scheduled to Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Facebook through Buffer.  📝 This article is designed to help  users with the desktop version of Buffer. You can find instr...

Jess Williams | @ Buffer

Buffer lets you easily schedule posts to multiple social channels using the Create Post button You won’t be able to schedule posts for multiple social channels if you choose a specific time slot in the queue, since those ...

Jess Williams | @ Buffer

If you've included a link in your post, a link preview will be automatically generated in the Buffer composer if you’re scheduling the post for Facebook and LinkedIn. You can learn more about link previews here. However, i...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

This guide outlines best practices when it comes to scheduling content through Buffer. Our top tips include configuring unique posting times for each social channel and limiting duplicated content. Keeping your Facebook ac...

Jess Williams | @ Buffer

In an effort to combat fake news being shared on their site, Facebook made some changes to their policy in December 2017 around editing link previews. With these changes, only the owner of a verified website can make chang...

Jess Williams | @ Buffer

In certain places within Buffer, including the Buffer browser extension and the Share Again feature, we will pre-fill the composer with the title and link. However, you might notice that we're not pulling in this informati...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

When scheduling a post for Facebook, you're able to choose the media you'd like to include. If you've included a link in your post, a link preview will be automatically generated. Additionally, you can choose from the sugg...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

With Facebook and LinkedIn, a link preview is shown in the composer when scheduling a post, allowing you to see (more or less) what your post will look like once it's been published. It's a bit more difficult with Twitter,...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Link shortening is a technique used to substantially shorten URLs, while still directing to the same page. Most links that are shared on social media are shortened links, rather than full URLs. Links that you drop into the...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

If you’re the owner or an admin of a Facebook group, you’ll be able to connect it to your Buffer account. While authentication to your Facebook group is done through your personal profile, we won't access your personal inf...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

If you’re the owner or an Admin of a LinkedIn page, you’ll be able to connect it to your Buffer account. Whilst we authenticate your LinkedIn page through your personal profile, we won't access your personal information or...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

When scheduling posts, it's good to keep in mind that each social network has its own character limits in place. The table below outlines the character limit for each social channel. Channel Character limit Facebook p...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Social networks will sometimes block accounts due to the frequency of posting, or the duplication of content, and we're keen to avoid that as much as possible. We've built great relationships with the social networks that ...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

In February 2018, Twitter announced new guidelines to prevent people from misusing multiple Twitter accounts to artificially amplify a message. Twitter have provided detailed definitions of what constitutes spam in the Twi...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

This is a question we hear a lot. We know that quite a few of you are looking for this type of functionality. Unfortunately, this is not something that our tool offers, and we'd love to share some of the reasons why. This ...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Unless you have explicitly disabled link shortening for a social channel, any links you paste into the composer will be automatically shortened. By default, the buff.ly link shortener will be used, but this can be changed ...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

When scheduling posts, you'll see various options for including media, depending on which social network you're sharing to. In all cases, assuming you've included a link in your post, you'll have the option to choose an im...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Some posts shared through Buffer will display a source stamp that mentions that you used Buffer to share the post. This source stamp is something that is added by the social network and some customers have asked if it's po...

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Unfortunately, it's not possible to create a Facebook post in multiple languages through Buffer at this time. You would need to create such posts within Facebook itself and you will need to be an admin on the Page.

Hannah Voice | @ Buffer

Due to privacy reasons, Facebook does not allow certain links to be shared in the form of link previews via any third party tools. This is because these link previews could contain text or images that are only meant to be ...