Why is “Buffering” useful?
What I like particularly about Buffering tweets is that you can without any worries simply hit the Buffer button whenever you are reading an interesting article. So when you are reading your morning news you can put say 5 different articles in your Buffer. They will then be posted for you well spaced out over the day. No one of your followers will be flooded with tweets.5 Features of the Buffer Firefox Add-On
1) Buffer your tweets on any website The core feature of the Addon is that you are able to give it one click on the Buffer Button no matter where you are online. This will give you the title of the page and the shortened URL. Simply “add to Buffer”: 2) Handy Keyboard Shortcut “Ctrl + Alt + b” For those, who want to make it even faster and more effortless to bring up the above Buffer Box, the Addon boasts a handy keyboard shortcut. Simply try hitting “Ctrl + Alt + b” and then add to your Buffer.
3) Highlighting Text feature to make Tweets unique
Another very interesting feature I found is that you can highlight some text in an article and then click the Buffer Button. It will turn this quoted line into Tweet for you. I believe this is particularly helpful as you can give your Tweets a unique face and also connect in a better way to the author:
4) Buffer Retweets right from Twitter.com
A super handy feature is that you are able to Buffer Retweets right from Twitter’s web interface with the Firefox Addon of Buffer. What I like about this option is that it gives me a very efficient way to do the old school RTs which are also seen by the initial tweeter, something that is lost for native RTs:
5) Right click and “Add Page to Buffer”
As a final hint I want to point you towards the right click option whilst you are browsing on a site. Simply hit the bottom option and the usual Buffer Box will appear for you to add the Tweet into your Buffer:
