I’ve been using both TwitterFon and TwitterFox for a few weeks now and oddly it never occurred to me (until just now) that they were made by the same company. That’s the nature of app repositories I guess, since I snagged TwitterFox directly from Firefox’s built-in addon browser and TwitterFon Pro I purchased from the Apple app store.

The big deal with these apps are not just that they’re featureful, but they’re very apt for the platform:

TwitterFox sits like a tray-app in Firefox and turns Twitter into a sort of IM app, which fits with how I use Twitter from my desktop.

TwitterFon makes use of all the native iPhone / iPod Touch app abilities you would expect it to. In fact, I find it far more natural and intuitive than Twitter’s website controls, especially with the separated tab for @ mentions. I really dislike ads, so I quickly paid for the Pro version, which came with some other useful perks such as the one below:

One feature out of both that I’m getting good usage from is the support for multiple Twitter accounts. I started up an extra feed for posting the minutiae of Gameslate dev updates without flooding my personal NecroRogIcon feed. For TwitterFon that works especially well, because I can set a different display theme per user (otherwise I’d probably make embarrassing crossposts).