Autumn Allison

autumn.allison@indystar.com

Tweet all you want to @solohill, he just won't see it.

Pacers small forward Solomon Hill no longer has access to his own Twitter account after having a friend change his password roughly a month ago.

"I just think that the whole social media wave goes hot and cold. You can come out having a bad game and people are going to say whatever they want to. If you have a great game, the same people are changing their mind about you," Hill said.

"As much as people say that stuff doesn't affect them, I think it gets to everybody."

Hill, a once active Twitter-er, has gone through two accounts on the site prior to his self-induced social media sabbatical.

"I just look at social network as a double-edged sword. It can be good sometimes and sometimes you can get a lot of hate. … It's definitely a pipeline for people to reach out to you and say what they want."

Which, coupled with his tendency to "kind of just get lost in it," Hill found not having that channel of communication open has helped clear some distractions.

"I think I'm in a good place, just focusing on basketball, trying to get as many wins as possible," said Hill. "I think that stuff will handle itself. And maybe someday down the line I'll get back on it."

Follow Star reporter Autumn Allison on Twitter: @Aallison25.