Several police brutality protesters have risen to prominence on Twitter, and along the way, acquired more than their fair share of questioners, haters and outright trolls.

But now, a Twitter bot is here to help.

Arguing and engaging with even a few people on Twitter can easily turn into a full-time job for activists such as DeRay Mckesson, Johnetta Elzie and others members and friends of the nonprofit group We the Protesters, an organization that aims to draw attention to police killings of black people in America.

Enter StayWokeBot, a new automated Twitter account that will do some of the arguing for them.

Demonstrators march in New York, on Dec. 13, 2014, during the Justice for All rally and march. Image: John Minchillo/Associated Press

“It’s for activists or people who deal with a lot of — I would say — people who expect to be given a free education,” Courtney Stanton, co-founder of Feel Train, the coding studio that designed StayWokeBot, told Mashable. “It allows you to distribute the same information over and over again very quickly.”

For now, StayWokeBot will mostly tweet out little rewards for anyone who follows it. Much like the Hogwarts sorting hat bot, StayWokeBot sends messages that compare new followers to icons — including author James Baldwin, rapper Nas and Oprah Winfrey — by saying things like, "You are the bearer of our tradition, you hold it in your pen. Tell the truth and nothing less, because you embody James Baldwin." It even has one for Riley Curry.

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Soon, however, StayWokeBot will work like this:

Say an activist tweets about police brutality, and a Twitter user responds by saying, "What about black on black crime?" He or she is arguing that black people should be more focused on the crimes black people commit against each other rather than on crimes committed by police. There are plenty of problems with the logic of that argument. But instead of tweeting at this person several times with an explanation, activists can reply by looping in StayWokeBot, and asking it to tell this person "about black-on-black crime."

The bot recognizes whatever phrase comes after the word "about," its designers told Mashable. StayWokeBot will then tweet a brief response to the user, followed by a link that explains the activist's argument in greater detail.

"I had never even thought about a bot for that, but I thought this could be really dope," Mckesson told Mashable. "Twitter's space is still relatively new, you know? There's so much to explore in it, and to explore with a purpose."

StayWokeBot is powered by a Google doc, which functions as its brain. Anyone with access to the doc can plug in a brief argument (e.g. why the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism) and link. Once both are inside the doc, the bot will be able to tweet them out.

The #TakeItDown rally in Columbia, SC. People calling to take the Confederate flag off state Capitol grounds. pic.twitter.com/AhhufqD9nC — Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015

Stanton and fellow Feel Train co-founder Darius Kazemi gave the doc to We the Protesters, which can open it up to anyone the organization chooses. The more people with access, the more who can switch out links.

Kazemi added that only those who have access to the doc will be able to use StayWokeBot. The bot recognizes usernames, and will perform tasks for the usernames at their request. No one else has access, which means trolls can't spam StayWokeBot's Twitter account with so many tasks that it becomes useless.

The doc that powers StayWokeBot will likely remain unknown to the general public, but Feel Train will make the code to build such a bot available to anyone.

“We can’t speak to issues around black lives ourselves, but we want to give people who can the tools to do it," Stanton said. "We built the possibility space."