PERISCOPE 101

A Guide to Using the Live Video Streaming App

WHAT IS PERISCOPE ?

Periscope is a free live-streaming mobile app that

allows users to view or broadcast anything around

the world in real time

Viewers can watch these live “scopes either on the

app or the Periscope website

SETTING UP THE PERISCOPE APP

1. Download the app through either the Apple App

Store or Google Play

2. You can choose to either create a new account

using a phone number or sign in with your Twitter

account

3. Choose your Periscope username and start

“scoping”

1. Click on the icon with

three people

2. It will bring you to a list

of your Twitter followers

that are on Periscope

and you can choose to

follow them there

HOW TO FOLLOW PEOPLE

Don’t forget to follow Enactus Canada!!!

1. Click the TV icon to

see which of your

followers are

broadcasting

2. The globe icon

allows you to view

live scopes around

the world

HOW DO I WATCH A SCOPE

• Hearts are how Periscope

ranks its top scopers

• More hearts = higher ranking

on leaderboard

• You can give the scoper

hearts by simply taping the

screen if you like something

the scoper says

GIVING HEARTS AND WHAT THAT MEANS

• You can comment simply

typing your thought into the

“Say Something” box down

below.

• Reminder: You only have

72 characters to work with

• If you want to reply, simply

click on the comment and

hit “Reply”

HOW TO COMMENT ON A SCOPE

Keep in mind:

There are some popular scopes that will have a lot of

viewers and you will notice that the option to type comments

won’t be available to you. When this happens, you can

choose to leave the broadcast and come back to it again

hoping to have been given the ability to comment.

HOW TO COMMENT ON A SCOPE

1. Click on the

person/number icon in

the bottom right corner

2. Click “Share” and you

can now choose to

share it either on

Twitter or/and share it

with your Periscope

followers

HOW TO SHARE A SCOPE

Viewers will only have 24 hours to view

your broadcast before it is gone

forever!!

THE 24 HOUR SHARE RULE

1. Click on the

camera lens

icon

HOW TO START A SCOPE

2. Create a title

for your scope

HOW TO START A SCOPE

3. You can

choose to turn

on or off the

precise location

button

HOW TO START A SCOPE

4. You can click the

lock icon to create a

private scope and

you can choose the

followers that you

would like to

privately scope

HOW TO START A SCOPE

5. This icon can let

you choose to either

only allow your

followers to

comment or to allow

everyone to

comment

HOW TO START A SCOPE

6. You can click the

tweet icon to send a link

to view your scope

through your connected

Twitter account Link will show up like

this

HOW TO START A SCOPE

7. Finally, once

everything has been

set up, you can click

the “Start

broadcast” button to

start your scope

HOW TO START A SCOPE

GOOD LUCK SCOPING!!!