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 Ways To Make Money On Twitter

Sure Twitter is great for keeping up with current events, keeping up with your favorite celebrities, stocks, and so much more. But did you know you can make money while having fun on Twitter?


Below we'll talk about 3 ways you can monetize Twitter and use this great social media platform to earn money!!!

3 Ways To Make Money With Twitter

 

Be An Influencer

An influencer is essentially just someone who has a following. An influencer is someone who's an established or respected voice, typically within a certain niche. A popular fashion blogger for example would be an influencer for fashion. Someone like the Pioneer Women would be an influencer in the food and cooking niche.

When you become an influencer and have some pull you may find you'll start to be contacted by brands who want you to Tweet about or Blog about their product, service, or website. Companies will pay you to Tweet about their brand or their new product.

Even if you're not yet an influencer to the level of having companies reaching out to you there are still ways to monetize Twitter. First off you could reach out to companies who make products you enjoy. Tell them you enjoy their product and how you feel your readers or viewers would as well. Tell them how many followers you have as well as how engaged they are; ie. do they retweet your stuff, ask questions, start discussions, etc.  Essentially your trying to sell yourself to the brand as to why you would be a valuable resource for them to get their word out to the masses.

There's one other option if your not being contacted by brands and if you're not having luck proactively reaching out to brands. There are many sites out there like SponsoredTweets.Com and others which assist in connecting you with brands. These sites typically work by tweeting a message the brand has decided they will pay people to Tweet. There's also other sites where you can be given free products to review. Oftentimes the "gig" will involve Tweeting a message about the product as well as sharing on several social media platforms. 

Tweet Affiliate Links 

Tweeting out affiliate links is another way to make money on Twitter. For those of you not familiar with affiliate programs do some research on things like Clickbank Products, Amazon Affiliate, eBay Partner Network, and more.

Some of my favorite affiliate programs are Amazon Affiliate Program, eBay Partner Network, and Clickbank. Personally I havn't had a lot of success with Clickbank, however the margins and payouts are great and some people do report great success.

So how does one make money on Twitter with an Affiliate Link? Let's say I find a great new product I like. I may do a blog post reviewing the product, showing how to use it, showing how it benefits the user. I may then send out a Tweet with a link to my blog post as well as a link to where to buy the product on Amazon. I would also include a link to the Amazon product on my blog post. If someone clicks the link either on Twitter or in the Blog post that link contains my affiliate ID and I will be given credit for anything that person buys on Amazon for the next 24 hours; whether it's the product I Tweeted or a different product.

Promote Your Own Products Or Store

Maybe you sell on eBay, Amazon, or own and operate your own e-commerce store. Twitter is a great place to post everytime a new product is posted on eBay or on your store. If it's a product your selling I'd also suggest including a picture of the product in the Tweet.

Once you get a bit more advanced you can use a tool like IFTT.Com to automate your posts so instead of having to manually send out a Tweet everytime you post a new item on eBay, you can connect IFTT to your eBay account and Twitter account and everytime you post a new product on eBay it will be automatically posted on Twitter. You can also use IFTT to automate posts to pretty much any other social media platform as well.

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.

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.

Ever Wondered How To Make Money Off Your Twitter Account?

Whether your a blogger, an affiliate marketer or just like to have fun on Twitter and have a decent following, were' all looking to make money right? You've built a pretty good Twitter following, and your Tweeting anyway so why not make money doing it?

Sponsored Tweets is a great way to monetize your Twitter platform by running ads for various advertisers. Did you know Kim Kardashian reportedly makes $12,000 per Tweet? Well sure you and I aren't Kim K but that doesn't mean we can't make some money by promoting certain advertisers.

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