Could you ask him to call me? zoloft children ocd anxiety In Bilton’s telling, a key moment in Twitter’s creation occurred at 2 a.m. in February 2006. Dorsey and Glass were sitting in a car, “sobering up after a night of drinking vodka and Red Bull,” as Dorsey vacillated between quitting tech to be a fashion designer and pursuing an idea for a service where users could share their “status,” what they were doing at the moment. Glass had heard Dorsey’s idea before, Bilton writes, but that night, with Glass despondent as his marriage was falling apart, it clicked. The status-sharing service became Twitter.