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Buffer vs Lateral: What are the differences?

Developers describe Buffer as "The easiest way to schedule tweets, Facebook posts and more". Buffer helps you manage multiple social media accounts at once. Quickly schedule content from anywhere on the web, collaborate with team members, and analyze rich statistics on how your posts perform. On the other hand, Lateral is detailed as "The ultimate API for recommending your content". Delight your users with personalised content recommendations. It's easy to set up and works with or without collaborative data. The Lateral API is trained on 10s of millions of high quality documents from law, academia and journalism. It can understand any document and provide intelligent recommendations.

Buffer belongs to "Social Media Tools" category of the tech stack, while Lateral can be primarily classified under "Machine Learning as a Service".

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    Super simple to schedule tweets
  • 24
    Buffer from my browser; integrates with my work flow
  • 9
    Awesome UI
  • 6
    Fair pricing
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    Weekly analytics report email
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    Re-buffer posts
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    Mobile App
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    Schedule tweets via API
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    Pablo for images
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    Easy to visualise time line
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      Re-buffering a lot of tweets is pretty painful
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      Mobile app could use some work
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      What is Buffer?

      Buffer helps you manage multiple social media accounts at once. Quickly schedule content from anywhere on the web, collaborate with team members, and analyze rich statistics on how your posts perform.

      What is Lateral?

      Delight your users with personalised content recommendations. It's easy to set up and works with or without collaborative data. The Lateral API is trained on 10s of millions of high quality documents from law, academia and journalism. It can understand any document and provide intelligent recommendations.

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