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Buffer

Easily shorten links and measure the impact of your social media posts

About Buffer

Buffer is an intuitive, streamlined social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive meaningful engagement and results on social media. Buffer is a team of real people, aligned with common values. Being a Buffer customer should feel like you have a whole team of people cheering for you. We want to see you succeed on social!

Buffer and Bitly

Buffer will shorten links that you include in social posts. By connecting to Bitly, those short links will be created through your Bitly account. This means you can keep your links and click metrics all in one place, making it easier to track the success of your efforts.

Media

Set up Link Shortening in Buffer
Connect Buffer to Bitly

Use cases

  • Use Bitly Short Links in Buffer

    Buffer short links are powered by Bitly, so Buffer users can easily shorten links and post to social directly from their Buffer account.

  • Integrate your Bitly Short Links into Buffer

    Have your own Bitly account or a Bitly-powered custom domain? Connect Bitly and Buffer to easily use and shorten links in your Buffer account using your Bitly instance, and see link click analytics directly in your Bitly Dashboard.