--- title: Vin Diesel Twitter PHOTO description: The Hollywood superstar is finally dipping his toe into the Twitter world after dominating on Facebook. canonical: https://time.com/4650300/vin-diesel-twitter/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-26T18:22:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:29.633Z og:title: Vin Diesel's First Tweet Is the Most Vin Diesel Thing Ever og:description: Welcome to the Twitter family, Diesel. og:url: https://time.com/4650300/vin-diesel-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vin Diesel's First Tweet Is the Most Vin Diesel Thing Ever twitter:description: Welcome to the Twitter family, Diesel. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Vin Diesel Celebrating His New Twitter Account With a Triumphant Shirtless Selfie > Sponsored content. 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His fans love him: he has [more than 101 million followers](https://www.facebook.com/VinDiesel/) on Facebook, where he regular posts inspirational thoughts, shirtless selfies, and shout-outs to his fandom for their support, using the kind of unstudied language and candid sincerity that suggests it’s not just a team of handlers behind the account. He’s also on the Instagram bandwagon. But he hadn’t made Twitter a priority—until this week. Finally, the man who plays [Xander Cage](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1293847/), [Dominic Toretto](http://time.com/3771543/fast-furious-ranking/?iid=sr-link1), and [Groot](http://time.com/3070761/watch-vin-diesel-say-his-only-line-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-in-4-different-languages/?iid=sr-link3) has joined the ranks of celebrities the platform. To celebrate his new digital foray, Diesel launched his account with a triumphant photo of himself, shirtless, on a beach, with a rainbow in the background. If that doesn’t say “Vin Diesel,” we don’t know what does. As of publish, he’s nearing 7 thousand followers after being live on the platform for about 13 hours. (He has a lot of catching up to do; The Rock has nearly 11 million, while [most-followed celebrity](http://time.com/4591951/top-twitter-celebrities-2016/?iid=sr-link1) Katy Perry has more than 95 million. > [](https://twitter.com/vindiesel/status/824492402312257536) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4650300/vin-diesel-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4650300/vin-diesel-twitter/"},"headline":"Here's Vin Diesel Celebrating His New Twitter Account With a Triumphant Shirtless Selfie","datePublished":"2017-01-26T18:22:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:29.633Z","description":"He's nearing 7 thousand followers","url":"https://time.com/4650300/vin-diesel-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Social Media","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4650300/vin-diesel-twitter/","name":"Here's Vin Diesel Celebrating His New Twitter Account With a Triumphant Shirtless Selfie"}}]}] ```