I have the same problem too and I have added your code mskelly, and it finally ran. However, this was the error message that I had when I clicked my mouse on the applet..
NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/appengine/api/urlfetch/HTTPRequest
Exception in thread "Animation Thread" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/appengine/api/urlfetch/HTTPRequest
at twitter4j.internal.http.alternative.HttpClientImpl.request(HttpClientImpl.java:58)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientWrapper.request(HttpClientWrapper.java:65)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientWrapper.post(HttpClientWrapper.java:102)
at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.post(TwitterImpl.java:1920)
at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.updateStatus(TwitterImpl.java:454)
at sketch_oct12a.mousePressed(sketch_oct12a.java:75)
at processing.core.PApplet.handleMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at processing.core.PApplet.dequeueMouseEvents(Unknown Source)
at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(Unknown Source)
at processing.core.PApplet.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.HTTPRequest
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
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