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by famfamfam 5644 days ago
I agree, I (with rather bad timing) I spent part of yesterday scheduling over a month's worth of tweets into CoTweet, the ability to not have to manually enter a date and time repeatedly would have saved a large amount of time.

However, after watching the video I wished. I don't want to enter my information without at first being able to see what the limitations would be on the free plan. The text on the site doesn't say anything about non-free plans/pricing other than that they exist. Careful scrubbing along the video does suggest its 2 a day (which would be fine for a free plan), with a max of 5 in the buffer which is so low as to completely ruin any plans of swapping it in for CoTweet and makes me much less willing to enter my email address.

May I suggest placing the plans/pricing information on the site? There is a page for it, but it appears to be mostly a duplicate of the homepage without any extra information.

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Hi Mark, a fellow brummie, I think we might even have met - I did a bit of work for Andy Higgs not too long ago.

Firstly, my apologies for the lack of pricing information. There was pricing information until about 20 minutes ago, at which point having watched in real-time the bounces off the pricing page I wanted to try something drastic - just a big button. It was all I could do in the short time I had whilst I had some traffic I could see the effect with, but it certainly improved the signup rate. Whether I am now attracting people who will never pay is another matter.

Just so you know, the pricing was:

Free = 2 tweets per day, 5 in your Buffer Standard $5/m = 10 tweets per day, 50 in your Buffer Max $20/m = unlimited

Here is a screenshot - http://joelg.cc/3zUN

After some initial feedback, I am considering perhaps increasing the limits on the free plan so that people can get a real feel for the service. The paid versions also allow you to use your own Bit.ly details to track the clicks on your links.

My apologies again, but it was an experiment I had to try. I'd love to chat to you about how Buffer could be useful for you and answer any questions you have. Feel free to drop me an email at joel@bufferapp.com

I hate date dropdowns. I think an app like this can borrow a UI idea from teuxdeux.com and let users enter schedule tweets over a timesheet-ish grid.

btw, are you the guy from the famfamfam icons? You are like a legend man!

FYI - the page is now back to normal after my small experiment - http://bufferapp.com/pricing