Effortless guide to the Periscope movie streaming app

I did a search today on Google Trends comparing Periscope and Meerkat. For the moment at least, it looks like Periscope is getting more traction.

A lot has switched with Periscope since my last post on streaming movie apps. In fact, they just announced some big switches at the six week mark on their Medium blog.

• You don't have to use Twitter to join Periscope. I still recommend it if you have a Twitter acct as Periscope can leverage the social graph to spread the word about your movie stream, but if you don't have a Twitter account you can simply sign up with just a mobile phone number.
• Tap your avatar on Periscope to switch your profile photo.
• Reply to comments in your broadcast directly by tapping the comment and then hitting reply. Replies will include the person's @handle.
• Blocking a follower is now posted in the talk too, so people can see who the troublemakers are!
• Your follower list is now sorted by date instead of alphabetically. I'm not sure that one is an improvement.
• Your broadcasts page shows you all of your past broadcasts

Get to the how-to

The app is fairly intuitive but a few things have been making people crazy, so here goes.

Commence by downloading Periscope from the iTunes store (No Android yet!)

Sign in with your Twitter acct (preferred) or your mobile phone number

Create your username. You are not required to use your Twitter treat but if you have a following there it's a good idea. It just makes it effortless for people to find you. Mine's @jfouts. At the moment your username is permanent. Choose wisely.

Once logged in you see a magnifying glass in the upper left corner of the screen. This permits you to search people by user name and if the user name includes a keyword you'll find them too.

On the right is your profile icon. Click it.

• Tap the text on your bio to edit it. Sorry, no HTML permitted yet.
• Tap your avatar to switch that picture.
• Down the page you'll also see your following, followers, blocked and past broadcasts.
• Click settings to choose to be notified when you get a fresh follower and if you want to auto save your broadcasts to your camera roll. I recommend yes as Periscope doesn't seem to always save broadcasts.
• Below settings is the “Share Periscope” button which permits you to share a link to your channel on other networks. Do this when you are ready for more followers!
• There is also a link to the Help center. Browse that to get up to speed quickly and make your very first broadcast as slick as possible.

In the bottom right corner is an icon of people. Who you go after is what makes this platform interesting so go browse a bit and find a few people you truly want to see. You followed them on Twitter so they are very likely a good choice right?

To the left of that is a square with a bubble in it. This launches the broadcasting icon. See below.

The icon of the globe shows all of the current live broadcasts around the world. Some of these are just people messing around, but you may find some gems so do check it out.

• To embark a broadcast click the broadcast icon.
• Inject your title very first. If you embark the broadcast before you do, there won't be a title displaying on your broadcast. (Lesson learned!). Make your title catchy and clickable! If you are broadcasting location specific, from a conference or to market your restaurant, think about putting the location in the title.
• The icons at the bottom from left to right; permit your location to be broadcast, make your broadcast private, permit only users you go after to talk , share your live link on Twitter.
• I choose to permit only users I go after on Periscope to talk as this blocks of 99% of the trolls and negative comments. If you still get a lot you may consider un following or blocking those people.
• For Your Information, if you block someone the block is collective with the rest of the participants in the talk. This is a step toward reducing the spam and trollage.
• Please do react to comments live while broadcasting. This shows you care about your viewers and helps make it more interesting for everybody. Think about doing and Ask Me Anything showcase.
• When you are broadcasting think about audio quality and background noise. Think about holding the camera stable.
• Periscope is created to broadcast vertically. This boundaries the screen people can see and while not optimal in most cases, it is what it is. If you attempt to broadcast horizontally it will be displayed as a teensy weensy movie cropped to fit the vertical screen.

When you choose to share your broadcast to Twitter a post goes out like this letting your Twitter followers and the world know you're live. When users click the link they'll have the option of viewing on the web or opening periscope and watching there. Recall only users watching on the app can comment or give hearts.

Saving and watching your Periscope movie later

Periscope only saves public broadcasts for twenty four hours on the “See” tab. A viewer can still see the broadcast and add hearts for that twenty four hour period. If the broadcast isn't saved for replay the user will only see a summary of the broadcast including the title, time and location (if you chose to share it). If you don't want this to be shown, view your broadcast on the see page and swipe left to delete it.

Saving your movie to the camera roll permits you to upload it to another platform, share it on Youtube and embed it in a website. Comments and viewers do not demonstrate if the version saved to your camera roll.

Watching someone's public broadcast is effortless. Go after their link and open the broadcast in a browser or in Periscope. If in Periscope you can comment and give hearts. In the browser you can only view the movie as a live stream.

If viewing on Periscope consider commenting to add value to the broadcast. Ask questions. Be positive. Recall, you're in public. Add hearts to showcase the love to the broadcaster and support them. Share the demonstrate on Twitter or other platforms.

Finding people to go after is effortless. Commence by following your wise, savvy Twitter friends. Then do some searches for things you are interested in. For example Food and Wine magazine, Huffington Post, NBC, CNN and Ford are some demonstrable ones.

Find people your friends go after. Click on their profile and go to the link that lists who they go after. See if there are some there you are interested in.

See someone who is posting excellent comments? Go after them by tapping the comment. This takes you to their profile and you can add them there. Note: the broadcast resumes to play behind the pop-up containing the bio. Click close to go back to the demonstrate.

At the moment comments stay on Periscope. They are not collective on Twitter or anywhere else. That would be a cool feature tho’!

Most loved is a list of Periscope users who got the most hearts on their demonstrate. Hearts are relative to “likes” on Facebook. A user simply taps the screen during a broadcast or a replay and sends hearts to the host. The ones who have gotten the most hearts demonstrate up on the most loved list.

Just because someone got a lot of hearts doesn't mean they are worth a go after. You will se a lot of gaming of this with people broadcasting “Will trade hearts for hearts. ” etc. Don't do this. Just don't!

All in all Periscope is shaping up to be a very cool way to expand your reach and have joy. Give it a attempt and let me know what your practice has been in the comments.

Effortless guide to the Periscope movie streaming app, Janet Fouts

Effortless guide to the Periscope movie streaming app

I did a search today on Google Trends comparing Periscope and Meerkat. For the moment at least, it looks like Periscope is getting more traction.

A lot has switched with Periscope since my last post on streaming movie apps. In fact, they just announced some big switches at the six week mark on their Medium blog.

• You don't have to use Twitter to join Periscope. I still recommend it if you have a Twitter acct as Periscope can leverage the social graph to spread the word about your movie stream, but if you don't have a Twitter account you can simply sign up with just a mobile phone number.
• Tap your avatar on Periscope to switch your profile photo.
• Reply to comments in your broadcast directly by tapping the comment and then hitting reply. Replies will include the person's @handle.
• Blocking a follower is now posted in the talk too, so people can see who the troublemakers are!
• Your follower list is now sorted by date instead of alphabetically. I'm not sure that one is an improvement.
• Your broadcasts page shows you all of your past broadcasts

Get to the how-to

The app is fairly intuitive but a few things have been making people crazy, so here goes.

Begin by downloading Periscope from the iTunes store (No Android yet!)

Sign in with your Twitter acct (preferred) or your mobile phone number

Create your username. You are not required to use your Twitter treat but if you have a following there it's a good idea. It just makes it effortless for people to find you. Mine's @jfouts. At the moment your username is permanent. Choose wisely.

Once logged in you see a magnifying glass in the upper left corner of the screen. This permits you to search people by user name and if the user name includes a keyword you'll find them too.

On the right is your profile icon. Click it.

• Tap the text on your bio to edit it. Sorry, no HTML permitted yet.
• Tap your avatar to switch that picture.
• Down the page you'll also see your following, followers, blocked and past broadcasts.
• Click settings to choose to be notified when you get a fresh follower and if you want to auto save your broadcasts to your camera roll. I recommend yes as Periscope doesn't seem to always save broadcasts.
• Below settings is the “Share Periscope” button which permits you to share a link to your channel on other networks. Do this when you are ready for more followers!
• There is also a link to the Help center. Browse that to get up to speed quickly and make your very first broadcast as slick as possible.

In the bottom right corner is an icon of people. Who you go after is what makes this platform interesting so go browse a bit and find a few people you indeed want to see. You followed them on Twitter so they are most likely a good choice right?

To the left of that is a square with a bubble in it. This launches the broadcasting icon. See below.

The icon of the globe shows all of the current live broadcasts around the world. Some of these are just people messing around, but you may find some gems so do check it out.

• To commence a broadcast click the broadcast icon.
• Inject your title very first. If you commence the broadcast before you do, there won't be a title displaying on your broadcast. (Lesson learned!). Make your title catchy and clickable! If you are broadcasting location specific, from a conference or to market your restaurant, think about putting the location in the title.
• The icons at the bottom from left to right; permit your location to be broadcast, make your broadcast private, permit only users you go after to talk , share your live link on Twitter.
• I choose to permit only users I go after on Periscope to talk as this blocks of 99% of the trolls and negative comments. If you still get a lot you may consider un following or blocking those people.
• For Your Information, if you block someone the block is collective with the rest of the participants in the talk. This is a step toward reducing the spam and trollage.
• Please do react to comments live while broadcasting. This shows you care about your viewers and helps make it more interesting for everybody. Think about doing and Ask Me Anything display.
• When you are broadcasting think about audio quality and background noise. Think about holding the camera sustained.
• Periscope is created to broadcast vertically. This thresholds the screen people can see and while not optimal in most cases, it is what it is. If you attempt to broadcast horizontally it will be displayed as a teensy weensy movie cropped to fit the vertical screen.

When you choose to share your broadcast to Twitter a post goes out like this letting your Twitter followers and the world know you're live. When users click the link they'll have the option of viewing on the web or opening periscope and watching there. Recall only users watching on the app can comment or give hearts.

Saving and watching your Periscope movie later

Periscope only saves public broadcasts for twenty four hours on the “See” tab. A viewer can still observe the broadcast and add hearts for that twenty four hour period. If the broadcast isn't saved for replay the user will only see a summary of the broadcast including the title, time and location (if you chose to share it). If you don't want this to be shown, view your broadcast on the observe page and swipe left to delete it.

Saving your movie to the camera roll permits you to upload it to another platform, share it on Youtube and embed it in a website. Comments and viewers do not display if the version saved to your camera roll.

Watching someone's public broadcast is effortless. Go after their link and open the broadcast in a browser or in Periscope. If in Periscope you can comment and give hearts. In the browser you can only view the movie as a live stream.

If viewing on Periscope consider commenting to add value to the broadcast. Ask questions. Be positive. Recall, you're in public. Add hearts to display the love to the broadcaster and support them. Share the showcase on Twitter or other platforms.

Finding people to go after is effortless. Begin by following your brainy, savvy Twitter friends. Then do some searches for things you are interested in. For example Food and Wine magazine, Huffington Post, NBC, CNN and Ford are some demonstrable ones.

Find people your friends go after. Click on their profile and go to the link that lists who they go after. See if there are some there you are interested in.

See someone who is posting superb comments? Go after them by tapping the comment. This takes you to their profile and you can add them there. Note: the broadcast resumes to play behind the pop-up containing the bio. Click close to go back to the showcase.

At the moment comments stay on Periscope. They are not collective on Twitter or anywhere else. That would be a cool feature however!

Most loved is a list of Periscope users who got the most hearts on their showcase. Hearts are relative to “likes” on Facebook. A user simply taps the screen during a broadcast or a replay and sends hearts to the host. The ones who have gotten the most hearts showcase up on the most loved list.

Just because someone got a lot of hearts doesn't mean they are worth a go after. You will se a lot of gaming of this with people broadcasting “Will trade hearts for hearts. ” etc. Don't do this. Just don't!

All in all Periscope is shaping up to be a very cool way to expand your reach and have joy. Give it a attempt and let me know what your practice has been in the comments.

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