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Clorox can't clean up this Twitter mess

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Bottles of Clorox bleach sit on a shelf at a grocery store on February 11, 2011 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Bottles of Clorox bleach sit on a shelf at a grocery store on February 11, 2011 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Clorox Bleach wishes they could clean up the mess it made after Apple released new emojis this week.

Clorox has apologized for its since deleted tweet, which showed a Clorox bottle made up of the new emojis.

With the picture, Clorox tweeted, "New emojis are alright but where's the bleach."

In its tweet, Clorox was commenting on why bleach wasn't included among the hundreds of other household items that Apple had added to its list of emojis.

But on social media, offense was taken, implying the company would rather the emojis be only white, by adding bleach.

After taking down the tweet, Clorox followed up with this apology:

View the tweet directly on the Clorox Twitter account.

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