Tara Copp ✓

@TaraCopp · Washington, DC · joined 13 Feb 2014

@WashingtonPost Pentagon correspondent. Signal: taracopp.06. Email: tara.copp@washpost.com

34 407Followers

2 425Following

15 331Posts total

2.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views10 974this account3 137median for 10K–100K

Reach, %31.89%this account10.26%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.71%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	10 974	3 137	3.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	31.89%	10.26%	3.11×
Engagement rate	0.71%	1.47%	0.48×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

31K27 Feb

2.3M30 Aug

10.1K

11K

7.2K

13.5K2 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.33%27 Feb

0.25%30 Aug

1.10%

0.32%

1.83%

0.71%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes60.2%4 127 in total

Reposts16.2%1 108 in total

Replies11.2%768 in total

Quotes2.2%148 in total

Bookmarks10.3%704 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

NEW: When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told President Donald Trump last week that he was resigning, Trump suggested he could stay at least through the midterm elections - a show of support for a top Pentagon leader who has clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 13.5K views · 72 likes · 19 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 The difference is that for the last several months those 50,000 troops have been required to remain at the highest alert levels to be able to respond to orders by the president to resume strikes or defend against incoming. That pace is what quickly wears down troops, ships, and 7.2K views · 84 likes · 19 reposts · 27 replies 30 Aug 2026 @TaraCopp @AlexHortonTX We used to have 200,000 troops in Iraq in Afghanistan at the same time for years!!. And the military budget was a lot less. Explain that?? 11K views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 14 replies 30 Aug 2026 The forces and ships are there to provide President Trump options against Iran - but it’s come at a steep cost, especially for the @USNavy. Only about a fourth of the entire U.S. destroyer fleet is available now to deploy, the service warned. 10.1K views · 71 likes · 28 reposts · 10 replies 30 Aug 2026 EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth that keeping the force of more than 50,000 troops in the Middle East is unsustainable, drawing “non-concurs” from them in recent orders to extend troops. (gift link) w/ @AlexHortonTX https://t.co/T7MkcRuKMT 2.3M views · 3.8K likes · 1K reposts · 662 replies 30 Aug 2026 NEW: The Trump administration told @washingtonpost Thursday that even as it expands the use of AI, it will keep a human in the loop in nuclear warfare. The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic https://t.co/Oo4eeMMV1r 31K views · 38 likes · 12 reposts · 50 replies 27 Feb 2026