Tame is an analytic research tool for

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

that was developed in 2012 by Arno Dirlam (CTO), Frederik Fischer (CEO) and Torsten Müller (CCO). Tame is a spin-off from

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

. The team of journalists and developers who developed Tame were aiming to design a search engine able to collect data in real-time for Twitter by ranking the frequency of

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being used, users being mentioned and the most shared links. Tame is mainly used by journalists (e.g.

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

, ARD,

Die Zeit ''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The ...

), politicians, PR, NGOs, and marketing experts. Tame was funded through

crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over was raised worldwide by crow ...

through

Companisto Companisto is an international equity-based crowdfunding website. It was founded by the lawyers David Rhotert and Tamo Zwinge in June 2012, in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of G ...

. It was able to collect € 250.000 (ca. US $ 335.000) in venture capital. Additionally, Tame gained further financing from “Pro FIT” program by Investitionsbank Berlin in a six-figure amount in 2013. It was presented as a start-up at ARTE Future, and the German social media conference re:publica.

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