What causes muscles to twitch?

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there's a whole bunch. there's tremor, spasms,convulsions, tics, alzhiemer disease, chemical poisoning, depends on what twitching your talking about
muscle twitching.
all of those that i listed above are causes of muscle twitching. there are 184 medical causes of muscle twitching.
I just need to confirm that it is caused by muscle contractions, low potassium, wasting of muscles and weakness of muscle
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003296.htm