How not to get verified on Twitter: Why applying for the blue tick gave me the blues

After Twitter announced last month that anybody could apply to be verified, I was pretty sure this was my chance.
Had the coveted blue tick been opened up to everyone when I was still a student using Twitter for the odd tweet about running late for lectures or links to my blog, I wouldn't have been interested. 
Now, however, as a journalist working at The Drum, I was sure it would be a hop, skip and a jump to get that little sought after icon as an "account of public int