Sign of a spreading Arab insurrection: hashtags for future revolutions

It's too early to say if the Tunisian revolution will be the catalyst leading to the fall of several other Arab dictatorships.

But a tweet this weekend by New York-based NBC digital reporter Rima Abdelkader suggests that Egypt won't be the last Middle Eastern country where protests occur.

The Egyptian protests began on January 25, which is why "#Jan25" is a common hashtag for tweets about the growing revolution in that country.

Abdelkaer's tweet states: "revolution-inspired hashtag dates already being planned for the rest of the Arab world - Sudan #Jan30 Yemen #Feb3 Syria #Feb5 Algeria #Feb12".

If poor young Arabs rise up against their governments in Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Algeria on those dates, it will indicate once again that it's tougher for dictatorial regimes to keep a lid on protests in the digital world.

This is starting to look like the Arab version of the fall of the Berlin Wall.