# julien-c/Circular

An open source Buffer app clone

Repository: https://github.com/julien-c/Circular
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/circular
Homepage: http://circular.io
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: buffer, tweet-scheduling, twitter
Archived: true
Last push: 2016-04-17T12:58:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5150, "days_push": 3790, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1027, forks 186 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:16.916290+00:00)

## What it is
Circular is an open-source clone of the Buffer app for scheduling and publishing tweets, built as a Backbone.js frontend with a PHP Silex REST API backed by MongoDB. A background PHP daemon publishes scheduled posts to Twitter when they come due.

## Use cases
- schedule tweets in advance like Buffer
- self-host a social media post scheduler
- queue Twitter posts and publish them automatically
- run an open-source alternative to Buffer
- manage a tweet queue with a web interface

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted Buffer alternative for Twitter scheduling
- you need a simple Backbone.js + PHP + MongoDB example app
- you want full control over your tweet scheduling data

## When to avoid
- you need support for networks beyond Twitter
- you need a maintained project - it has not been updated since 2016
- you prefer modern JavaScript frameworks or a managed service

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, http-server, scheduling, auth
- domain: social-media, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, php
- tags: buffer-clone, tweet-scheduling, backbonejs, mongodb, silex, twitter, automation, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- julien-c/Circular (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.916290+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:07:52.946756+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/julien-c/Circular (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.916290+00:00, sha 45493134f003)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.