Periscope Tutorial Periscope is a mobile live-streaming app that allows users to broadcast in real-time and subsequently view “scopes” for up to 24 hours after the broadcast from around the world and the beauty of it, it’s for free. NOTE: You can now shoot horizontally while Periscoping – shoot horizontally!!

Anyone can stream a live video through their mobile device and viewers can watch these live scopes on the app or the Periscope website.

Getting Set Up on Periscope 1. Go to the App Store or Google Play and download the app 2. Choose between connecting with your Twitter account or creating a brand new account using a phone number. I think linking it with your Twitter account is the best way forward as you should already have a recognized following. 3. Choose your Periscope username carefully (yes, even those who sign-up using Twitter can choose a name that is different from their Twitter handle), you probably should take your name before someone else does. 4. Then simply start following other “Scopers.”

Before Your First Broadcast You need to be mindful that with all recorded scopes, viewers will only have 24 hours to watch your scope before it is gone forever ; however, you can have all your scopes automatically saved to your mobile device by following these steps:

1. Click the People Icon

2. Click your profile icon

3. Click Settings

4. 5. Make sure Autosave Broadcasts is toggled to the ‘on’ (green) position. This will save the video to your phone’s “Gallery.” You can then email it to yourself, or plug in your phone and upload it to a computer, etc.

Another option is to use the online Katch.me service. This FREE service will record your scope to the cloud. This is ideal if you don’t have enough memory in your mobile device. Make sure to check “Auto-Katch all my streams.”

For the Katch.me service to work properly, you need to make sure that you broadcast your stream out to Twitter at the beginning of your scope so they can katch you!

With either the saved scope in your mobile device or the ones saved on the Katch.me service you can then upload your scopes to YouTube, or Blackboard, repurposing your content. How to Start a Scope 1. Click on the camera lens icon This is the third icon from the left on iOS devices and red lens icon above the bottom navigation bar on Android devices

2. Create a title for your scope Some people use all caps in their title. I feel that it can be hard to read, so capitalizing the 1st character of every word should be enough.

Tip: use emoji’s to make your title stand out

3. You can turn on or off your precise location by clicking the arrow icon

4. Create a private scope by clicking the lock icon and checking next to the follower(s) you would like to privately scope

This feature is a brilliant idea if you want to test Periscope first by doing a few scopes to get comfortable with how it works before you do your 1st live scope. But make sure the ones you do for news purposes are PUBLIC.

5. The third icon allows you to choose between allowing only your followers to comment or allowing everyone to comment I recommend allowing everyone to comment as you’re engaging with people outside of your followers. However, you have to watch out for the trolls out there.

Trolls can be blocked by simply pressing their comment and selecting block, unfortunately they can still comment on the current scope but not on any of your subsequent scopes.

6. You can also click the tweet icon on this screen and a link to your scope will be sent out to the connected Twitter account This is highly recommended as you are advertising to all your followers that you are broadcasting on Periscope.

Also, this is exactly what you should do prior to the scope if you are using the Katch.me service, as previously mentioned in this tutorial.

Once your followers start to watch your scope ask them to invite all their twitter and periscope followers to watch your broadcast.

During the scope you should ask the viewers to follow you and they will be notified of all your future scopes.

7. Once you’re ready, hit the ‘Start Broadcast’ button

How Long Should Your Scope Be? There is no limit on the length of time you can scope for; however, you don’t want them to be too long.

Your scopes should be value-based and as long as you are providing news value then a 30 to 60 second scope is a good number to shoot for.

Keep in mind that your viewers don’t want to listen to a 9-minute intro so get right into your topic after welcoming your viewers and introducing yourself. How to Share Your Scope Make sure to click the tweet icon before starting your broadcast

Once your broadcast starts, the link and title of your scope is posted as a tweet on your Twitter account. It will look similar to this:

How do I watch a Scope? 1. Click the TV to see which of your followers are currently live. 2. You can also see your followers’ most recent scopes (from the past 24 hours) in this tab 3. Click the globe icon to see what scopes are live around the world. You can choose between the map view and list view at the top 4. Once you find a scope that interests you simply click on it to open the scope.

How to Give Hearts and What They Mean When you are watching a live scope you’ll notice a whole rainbow of hearts floating up the right side of your screen. These hearts correspond with whatever color your profile picture is given for that particular scope (it will change for each one). To add your own hearts you just tap on the screen! You can “show some love” if the broadcaster is saying something that you like, gives a great tip, asks for hearts, etc.

These hearts are how Periscope ranks its top scopers. The more hearts = the higher up in the leaderboard you get!

For some reason you are only allowed to give 500 hearts during a scoping session. However there is a way that you can give a further 500 hearts by exiting out of the scope and then rejoining again.

You can do this as many times as you like during that live scope to give as much love as you like.

How to Comment on a Scope Commenting on a scope is as simple as clicking inside the ‘Say Something’ box and typing your comment! Keep in mind you only have 72 characters to work with

If you want to respond to someone else’s comment, just tap on their comment and hit ‘Reply.’ You can also follow them by clicking on ‘View Profile’ and clicking ‘Follow.’

Something to keep in mind: some popular scopes will have tons of viewers and comments won’t be available to you. When this happens you can choose to just watch the scope or leave and come back every so often to hopefully get the ability to comment.

This seems to happen when there are around 300 viewers. The comments field will say “Broadcast Full” when you are unable to post a comment. How to Share a Scope as a Viewer This is the same for both iOS and Android devices. 1. Click on the number in the bottom right corner 2. Click ‘Share.’ You can choose to share on Twitter and/or share with your Periscope followers

How to Follow People On iOS devices, click the icon of the three people in the bottom right corner of the navigation bar. On Android devices this icon is at the top of the screen in your navigation bar.

From here you can sort through your Twitter followers that are on Periscope (if you have connected with your Twitter account), search for people by name, or if you scroll down past your Twitter followers you will find the ‘Most Loved’ scopers.

This icon is also where you can get to your profile by clicking the icon in the top right corner.