Pop singer Justin Bieber tweeted on Oct. 10 that his computer with "personal footage" on it was stolen during his show in Tacoma, Wash.

But on Friday, Oct. 12, Bieber announced it was all a joke from the beginning. The pop singer's computer was never stolen and the ruse was a publicity stunt to promote his new music video, "Beauty and the Beat."

"Since i was 14 i have had a lot of things said about me, from dying, to taking hormones, to dying again, to stuff about my family, to saying i had a baby with a woman i never even met. nude pics, drugs, my family, my character...but today...today i get to be in on it," he tweeted before he unveiled the video.

Bieber then tweeted a link to his new music video "Beauty And A Beat," featuring Nicki Minaj. The video was shot to appear as if Bieber used a handheld camera to film a party, as if it featured stolen footage from his personal computer.

Bieber makes quite a splash in it literally and figuratively- almost the entire video was filmed in or beside a pool. The singer had multiple dancers dance in and out of the pool and he even lip-syncs the song's lyrics underwater.

A ton of websites took Bieber's tweet of a stolen computer seriously and some blogs speculated that naked pics or a sex tape of the 18-year-old star would possibly leak. Yesterday, Bieber even had to speak out and clarify that some nude photos that popped up online were fakes. 

After Bieber tweeted that his computer with "personal footage" on it was stolen on Oct. 10. A nude picture went viral on Twitter that was said to be of the singer himself. 

The shot, which has since been removed from the site, shows a naked man's torso and lower half while he is seen grabbing his genitals straight on to the camera lens. The man in the image, whose face is not shown, also has a similar bird tattoo on his hip in the same spot that Bieber has his.

AceShowbiz.com said the photo surfaced only hours after Bieber tweeted about the stolen computer.

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