In a Monday announcement via Twitter, popular crowd-funding platform Kickstarter revealed its plans to bring its service to the UK, saying that it will be possible for the UK residents to use the micro-funding site for launching their projects from autumn this year.

Since the use of Twitter to break the news restricted the Kickstarter's UK-related details to 140 characters, the tweet by the crowd-funding site merely read thus: "People in the UK will be able to launch projects on Kickstarter starting this autumn! More info soon!"

Kickstarter's expansion to the UK is apparently an upshot of the fact that the Amazon Payments service - the platform which Kickstarter uses for soliciting funds - was launched in the country in March last year. Before that, the Amazon Payments platform was available only in the US; and, as such, only US residents could create projects and solicit funding on Kickstarter.

Ever since its launch in 2008, Kickstarter has hosted approximately 63,000 projects, and has raised over $276 million in all; with 44 percent of the projects on the site having received requisite funding amounts. In a milestone of sorts, two Kickstarter projects surpassed the `$1 million' mark for the first time ever; with both the feats coming on the same day in February this year!

At present, some of the most popular Kickstarter-funded projects include the "Star Command" spaceship management game; "The Nifty MiniDrive" device for increasing MacBook's on-board memory; and a book titled "These Days: A Novel."