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Survey respondents were aged 18 years and older.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposure<\/jats:title>Self-reported social media use.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>The primary outcome was score on the Brief Irritability Test (range, 5-30), with higher scores indicating greater irritability.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Across the 2 survey waves, there were 42\u202f597 unique participants, with mean (SD) age 46.0 (17.0) years; 24\u202f919 (58.5%) identified as women, 17\u202f222 (40.4%) as men, and 456 (1.1%) as nonbinary. In the full sample, 1216 (2.9%) identified as Asian American, 5939 (13.9%) as Black, 5322 (12.5%) as Hispanic, 624 (1.5%) as Native American, 515 (1.2%) as Pacific Islander, 28\u202f354 (66.6%) as White, and 627 (1.5%) as other (ie, selecting the other option prompted the opportunity to provide a free-text self-description). In total, 33\u202f325 (78.2%) of the survey respondents reported daily use of at least 1 social media platform, including 6037 (14.2%) using once a day, 16\u202f678 (39.2%) using multiple times a day, and 10\u202f610 (24.9%) using most of the day. Frequent use of social media was associated with significantly greater irritability in univariate regression models (for more than once a day vs never, 1.43 points [95% CI, 1.22-1.63 points]; for most of the day vs never, 3.37 points [95% CI, 3.15-3.60 points]) and adjusted models (for more than once a day, 0.38 points [95% CI, 0.18-0.58 points]; for most of the day, 1.55 points [95% CI, 1.32-1.78 points]). 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