The rise of the Twitter Prof has nothing to do with Twitter’s funding model.
Companies advertising open position on HN do not pay for the ads. HN does not rely on imcome from ads to run the website.
(Now, one could argue that HN is owned by YC, YC makes money from "tech" companies and "tech" companies generally use online ads or ad services as their "business model". Fair enough. In response, I would point out that HN does not need surveillance, data collection or ads in order to survive. HN's "content" comes from from submitters and commenters. These individuals are unpaid. Unlike sites run by "tech" companies, the users generating the "content" are not paid from online advertising revenue.)
HN has advertisements and is part of a .com (Ycombinator).
The "Twitter prof" is the academic who has learnt to master the advertiser-funded hype machine.
The internet should be an advertising-free internetwork as it once was.
Everyone reading this comment and enjoying this forum is using a non-commercial website. There is no advertiser funding.
When we fail regulate so-called "tech" companies, we watch the value of the internetwork continually degraded to nothing more than a means to advertise and disseminate "junk".