It’s official: I still love Buffer.
I first introduced you to the scheduling app in a New Tool Tuesday feature, but those were just some of the basics. Take a look at the power of scheduled tweets — amazing impressions and analytics!
These are some of the tweets that I scheduled through Buffer last week:
The left icon shows number of retweets, the center icon is number of clicks, and the far right shows number of impressions.
Take, for example, the tweet I made on Tuesday at 8:09pm. I shared the link to a post I’d done months ago, about auditing your blog. The information was still relevant, and someone that I was talking to reminded me that it’s a pretty good resource.
I got 85 clicks through to that post — 85 page views for something that took me no added effort.
And since I typically try and tweet other people’s posts more than my own, the power of sharing gets amplified.
Another example — see the post that I shared on Wednesday morning, from Roni? She got 50 clicks from my share, which is great, because it was a post that deserved a lot of attention (here it is, in case you missed it: “Hi, I’m Dr. Darlene and I Lost 40lbs on the HCG Diet System.“)
Here’s this week’s dashboard:
Lots of people got love from me, because it’s so easy to share from my Google Reader and/or the bookmarklet in Chrome. I just one-click send the post to Buffer and keep my queue loaded up.
I’m not alone in my Buffer love:
- Increase Clicks on Your Tweets by 200% (guest post by Buffer’s @LeoWid via For Bloggers By Bloggers)
- With the Buffer App You Can Now Be Awesome on Facebook and Twitter (via New Mediator)
- Buffer App Increases Engagement on Twitter (via Edelman Digital)
- Buffer App Makes Scheduling Tweets Easy (via Michele Neylon)
- Buffer App Saves Time With a Single Click (via ConverStations)
- Buffer App Will Make Twitter More Fun (via Emiley Tay)
Again — nothing that I put in Buffer is automated except for the actual time that it goes out. I still go in and tweak the message, add the Twitter handle and more. But it just allows me to load up a queue with stuff that I think is interesting (and give some love to older posts that I think have relevance today).
YAY analytics!
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THANK YOU!! this is awesome.
Very interesting! Looks like a tool worth checking out.
I always learn something new when I read your blog Katy!. I’ll have to check out the Buffer App.
I love Buffer…I just get sad sometimes when there’s only room for 4 tweets a day. Maybe that’s a sign I should shut up.
Hi Heather,
Awesome, so glad you like Buffer. A quick heads up, if you go to “Settings” you can always add more times in if you want, so you can Tweet more often every day!
Hope that helps, you can ping me anytime at leo @ bufferapp.com
Leo,
Co-Founder Buffer
Fine. I’ll try it. I’d thought it was a little spammy, but it seems to be doing some awesome things.
Katy, this looks soooo cool! As I was reading this I immediately went to the site and signed up! Love how it shows the analytics right there!! Thanks for always being on top of all this col techy stuff
Great examples – thanks for sharing them (so I can share with others). BufferApp is such a time saver. I can now share more — and share better. Thanks for your sharing ways!
Looks a very useful tool thanks. I need to use twitter more and this will help.