Tim Cook deletes his blurry Super Bowl photo after Twitter backlash

Goodbye, Tim Cook's blurry photo, we hardly knew ye.
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Stan Schroeder
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Goodbye, Tim Cook's blurry photo, we hardly knew ye. 

After posting a blurry Super Bowl photo on Twitter on Sunday -- and being subsequently torn to pieces by Twitter's angry mob -- Apple CEO Tim Cook decided to delete the photo on Tuesday. 

We don't know the reasons behind Cook's decision -- he left no explanation on Twitter -- but it's safe to say the pain and the shame was just too much to bear. Either that, or he just didn't want a crappy photo on his timeline. 

The photo is now gone from Twitter, but you can still marvel at it, below. 

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You can see some of the funniest (and meanest) reactions to Cook's blurry photo here, but the party is now over. It's time to move on, folks.

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Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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