New stats which appeared on Mashable yesterday show that Twitter has reached 500 million tweets a day, or 600 tweets a second.

There’s no indication as to whether this is due to more members or just more active members but it does show that twitter is continuing to grow at quite a pace.

The other big Twitter news is that His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who has had an account for some time, has become active, enabling Twitter to cater for the spiritual needs of the 500 million daily tweets.