With Buffer, you can manage your tweets on Twitter more efficiently that you could in the past. Twitters recent valuation at a whopping $10 Billion is a sign that Twitter’s seriousness and value for its users has increased significantly. It is no longer a black hole to express thoughts to everyone and nobody. It has turned into a source for valuable conversations and highly targeted traffic to one’s site.
Therefore optimizing your time and effort on Twitter is more important than ever. In order to help with that, let me introduce you to Buffer. It is a new Twitter App that helps you to be more efficient on twitter, yet remaining a genuine personality.
How does Buffer work?
Buffer is very different from existing tweet scheduling functions, such as Hootsuite’s, Social Oomph’s or CoTweets’. Instead of scheduling each individual tweet, there are pre-set times at which your added tweets go out. It is very intuitive and a no hassle approach. Let’s look at it in more depth.
After your account is created, get started by setting the times of when your tweets go out. You only have to do this once, so a “fire and forget” method applies. Also you can add additional timeslots, your bit.ly details or another team member to collaborate with you. It is also very handy that you can add additional twitter accounts, without setting up another Buffer account.
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The Browser Extensions
Installing the Chrome extension or any other Browser extension that is available is also very useful and makes the process least cumbersome. It allows you to add tweets to your Buffer right there from any browser. Whenever you like something, you can hit the Buffer icon and add to your Buffer. You can choose to either edit the tweet like we did below or add to Buffer right away with the suggested text from the application.
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A topped up Buffer
Once your Buffer is filled up with tweets you can always go back to your Buffer account and edit the tweets. Move them around by simply dragging them up or downwards.
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How does using Buffer make most sense?
By making Buffer part of your browsing routine, you will be able to create a consistent stream of content for your followers on twitter. Alongside reading posts or watching videos, you give it one click on the Buffer icon, if you think this content is worth sharing. This means no extra effort for you, yet you let your followers know, which great sources of content you came across.
Getting the great feeling of a topped up Buffer that will keep your followers posted with updates in the coming hours or days is just something you should try. After you have been using Buffer for a while, always topping up with another tweet, whenever an article is useful, your twitter efforts will be highly optimized.
If you give it a try, let us know below what your experience is with Buffer.