管理sql中具有多行的子查询

Im doing this small twitter page and I want to query my tweets some how.
Id like them to have those @(eg. "@someName") signs and when someone follows someone, their tweets will be displayed.
PHP QUERY:

    SELECT * from tweetsTab where username = '".$user."' or username = (SELECT
    followed from followTab where follower = '".$user."') or tweet like CONCAT
    ('%@', (SELECT followed from followTab where follower = '".$user."'), '%') or
    tweet like '%@".$user."%' ORDER BY tweetTime DESC;

The subqueries have multible rows which is an error. So im Kinda stuck here and a beginner to SQL.

So how can I query when subquery has multible rows and " IN " doesn't work, so that I can keep sorting by tweetTime

You can use IN

SELECT * from tweetsTab where username = '".$user."' or username IN (SELECT
followed from followTab where follower = '".$user."') or tweet like CONCAT
('%@', (SELECT followed from followTab where follower = '".$user."'), '%') or
tweet like '%@".$user."%' ORDER BY tweetTime DESC;