#welovegamedevs
By rahulricky 6 Comments
Maybe everyone should think of a game they really love then tweet the developer and tell them. Tag it #welovegamedevs (I know I'm a hippy)
— Keith Stuart (@keefstuart) August 22, 2014
A while ago, Guardian Games Editor Keith Stuart decided to inject the internet with a burst of sunshine with the #welovegamedevs hashtag. It was pretty great watching the stream of positivity coming through on there (at least until spammers and opportunists got in on it towards the end of the day). Anyway, I pulled together a list of the most mentioned accounts on there, to see which devs were getting the most love. I forgot about it until seeing the Notch/Mojang news today, which reminded me that multiple Mojang developers were high up on this list.
| Account Name | number of all tweets | retweets | original tweets | |
| 1 | @playstationeu | 140 | 121 | 19 |
| 2 | @bethblog | 135 | 68 | 67 |
| 3 | @notch | 132 | 60 | 72 |
| 4 | @ubisoft | 119 | 61 | 58 |
| 5 | @xboxuk | 118 | 114 | 4 |
| 6 | @square_enix_eu | 76 | 60 | 16 |
| 7 | @naughty_dog | 75 | 18 | 57 |
| 8 | @bungie | 60 | 10 | 50 |
| 9 | @jeb_ | 59 | 45 | 14 |
| 10 | @sega | 56 | 25 | 31 |
| 11 | @mediamolecule | 55 | 38 | 17 |
| 12 | @capcom_uk | 54 | 41 | 13 |
| 13 | @assassinscreed | 50 | 35 | 15 |
| 14 | @dinnerbone | 47 | 40 | 7 |
| 15 | @ubisoftmtl | 47 | 29 | 18 |
| 16 | @rareltd | 47 | 40 | 7 |
| 17 | @codemasters | 43 | 38 | 5 |
| 18 | @simonhoneydew | 41 | 40 | 1 |
| 19 | @bioware | 40 | 1 | 39 |
| 20 | @playstationuk | 32 | 28 | 4 |
I pulled in just under 2000 tweets altogether for the one day (August 22nd).
Other interesting things -
more people tweeted #saveshenmue than #shenmue, I'm not sure why I think that's interesting but I do.
#playstation, #xboxone and #wiiu all got exactly the same number of tweets, although not entirely fair because once you add in all the variations possible playstation comes out far ahead (although even that's helped by a big push from the @playstationeu account itself, which is also why it's at the top of the most mentioned list).
Here's a little word cloud of all the tweets :)