3 Reasons To Signup For Periscope

3 Reasons To Signup For Periscope

Have you signed up for Periscope? If not you should. Periscope is Twitters new live streaming app. Though still relatively small in the comming months or years it's sure to be huge.

I see Periscope as being a huge channel for citizen news broadcasting, live Q&A's, and more. Look at Youtube's live streaming feature, Periscope is in many ways the same thing with a twist, plus you can do it on your mobile device.

Watch the video below to learn the 3 reasons you need to signup for Periscope today.

How To Hide or Disguise Your Location When Periscope Broadcasting

How To Hide Your Location On Periscope

Many Periscope broadcasters have privacy concerns when broadcasting from home. When broadcasting on Periscope it shows a map of your location, which pretty much shows close enough so that people can tell what block your on and in some cases almost the exact house.

This is understandably a concern for some people broadcasting from their home. The video below will show you how to hide or change your Periscope location when broadcasting on Periscope from home and wanting to protect your privacy.

How to Hide Your Location when Broadcasting on Periscope

How To Hide Your Location On Periscope

Periscope is Twitter's new popular live broadcasting app. It's similar to a Youtube "Live Broadcast" or a live "Google Hangouts" session where in real time you talk and interact with your audience.

Periscope can be used for basically anything, but is especially useful for Q&A sessions, teaching an audience how to do something, or live broadcasting some kind of special event or breaking news.

With Periscope in it's infancy there's really no set or established way to use Periscope which makes it cool for early adopters as you can really do whatever you want.

Periscope is awesome but one feature some don't like is that it shows a detailed map of where you are broadcasting from. This isn't really a concern if broadcasting from a public place or some event, however if broadcasting from your home, many people have legitimate privacy and safety concerns about sharing their exact location with everyone on the internet.

Many have asked if there's any way to disable the location feature or at the very least show the city you are in but not show your exact location down to your street. There isn't a way to do that, however there is a way to trick your phone into thinking you are somewhere else with a GPS Spoofing App.

How to Hide your Location when Broadcasting on Periscope

How To Change Your Location When Broadcasting

If your broadcasting from home and are uncomfortable with your exact location being shared you can hide or at least change your location. To do this you will need to download a GPS Spoofing app. There's plenty of options on the app store. This will work for people with Android phones, however I've heard Apple and iPhones have the system so locked down you cannnot do this, so this may not work for iPhone users.

Once you download the GPS Spoofing app you will see a pin on a map. Drag it to where you would like your location to be.

Now before broadcasting I suggest you check and make sure the spoofing app really is working. You can do this by doing a Google search for a pizza place or restaurant. If you see stuff near you popping up it hasn't worked. If you see locations near where you chose your spoofed location to be then it is working. Simple enough right.

Now when you broadcast it will show the spoofed location you choose instead of your actual location.

Don't Lie About Your Location

My personal opinion is that you shouldn't lie about where your at. For example, if your in Omaha, Nebraska, don't say your in Hawaii. The cool thing about Periscope is you can watch or chat with people near you or people in a location you want to see. Don't abuse this trick I gave you by saying your in China when your in Chicago.

The reason I'm sharing this tip is because I do think it's understandable you don't want everyone on the internet to know your exact street.

Here's how I would suggest using the spoofing feature. Pick a spoof location that is a couple miles across town or even in a neighboring city. This way you are not being dishonest about where your Periscoping from, however at the same time you are protecting your privacy and safety by not showing everyone on Periscope literally what block you live on.

3 Reasons To Sign-Up For Twitters New App Periscope

If you're hip to social media, even if you havn't used Periscope, you've probably heard about it.

Periscope is Twitters new app, and to me is pretty groundbreaking in that you are able to live stream from your phone. There's a couple similar apps on the market, however after having checked out a few I find Periscope has the largest audience, though in the grand scheme of social media platforms still very small and non that active. None the less Periscope still is the largest.

Periscope to me also has the best layout, least amount of buffering, and just overall the best user experience.

I see Periscope turning into something really big. As with any platform, the earlier you get on the better. You get a head start over other content creators, typically are the first to be able to use or beta test new features. Currently there is no way directly through Periscope to monetize, however if one rolls out I'm sure the early adopters will be the first invited to use it. I see this as a potential big opportuntiy to get in on the ground floor and start building a following.

To learn more watch the video below titled 3 reasons to signup for Twitters New App Periscople. Leave a comment and let us know what you think of Periscope.

What The Future Holds For Periscope - The New Twitter App

For those of you who havn't checked it out yet, download Periscople, the new App by Twitter. It's a live streaming app, where you can stream events, or you just rambling, live from your phone in real time, and communicate with your viewers.

Currently Periscope is still relatively small and unknown. Most of the "broadcasts" are just doing broadcsts of random things around their home, though you are starting to see businesses use it. You're also starting to see people doing educational type broadcasts and Q & A sessions.

Watch the video below to learn more about Periscope as well as where I see Periscope going in the future. This is the ground floor of a new platform and I'd recommend getting in early.

Learn What Periscope Is And How To Use It In 11 Bullet Points

Chances are you've probably heard about Twitter's new live streaming app called Periscope but you may not have downloaded it or tried it out yet. Here's a quick 10 points to tell you a little about the app and what it does...

1. Periscope allows you to stream anything live from anywhere right on your smartphone. It allows you and your phone to become a broadcaster.

2. Titles are uber important. Your title is basically the only thing you have to attract watchers to your broadcast and tell them what it's about.

3. You may notice while watching others broadcasting that if youu tap your screen there's some fluttering hearts which will float up the screen. This had me confused at first as to what the point of these are, however I've learned it's essentially like giving the broadcaster an applause and letting them know you enjoy their content.

4. These hearts mentioned in number 3 are used as a measure of popularity on Periscope. Think of these like a thumbs up on Youtube.

5. The chat box allows you as a watcher to communicate with the broadcaster and you as a broadcaster to also communicate with your viewers.

6. Acknowledge your audience. If someone asks you a question respond to it. If someone asks to look in your fridge don't ask why just open your fridge and show them. Don't ask why there's this wierd thing about looking in peoples fridges trend happening on Periscope.

7. Once you end a stream an analytics box will pop up. This box will show you your number of views, retention rate, duration of video, and the number of hearts you received. This is how to rank your channel by doing good in these scoring areas.

9. When you complete a stream you will also have an option to save it to your camera roll which will save it to be viewed later. People who follow you will be able to watch your past streams similar to how on Youtube your vieos will always be up to be viewed.

10. Privacy... before you start a broadcast you will see 3 little icons. One icon on the left is the location icon, one for privacy and one for Twitter. The location icon if clicked will show people your location. If your doing this from your house you may want to hide the location privacy as this will show people on a map literally right where you are. A a public event of on the streets of a big city you could probably leave it on without concern. The lock or privacy button allows you to ;ive stream only for certain people. If you want to stream an event and only share it with certain people you can do that. Lastly is Twitter, if this is turned on a notification will be Tweeted out on your Twitter profile saying your currently streaming. If you Periscope a lot maybe don't do this for every broadcast as you may overload your followers with notifications.

11. When watching a broadcast if you want to follow someone swipe to the right and their profile will show up. You can see their profile photo and follow them if you like.


Periscope is a fairly new app and there definately still working out some kinks, however I'm super impressed thus far and see this becomming huge. Get started now and be an early adopter as this is going to blow up and this will give you a legup on others. LIve streaming takes engagement to a whole new level for marketing.