如何在MySQL中通过连接提高性能

我正在开发一个社交网络跟踪应用程序。即使连接正确，也可以正常工作。但是，当我添加order by子句时，总查询执行时间要长100倍。我用来获取不带有order by子句的twitter_users的以下查询。

SELECT DISTINCT  `tracked_twitter`.id
FROM tracked_twitter
INNER JOIN  `twitter_content` ON  `tracked_twitter`.`id` = `twitter_content`.`tracked_twitter_id` 
INNER JOIN  `tracker_twitter_content` ON  `twitter_content`.`id` = `tracker_twitter_content`.`twitter_content_id` 
AND  `tracker_twitter_content`.`tracker_id` =  '88'
LIMIT 20

显示第0-19行（共20行，查询耗时0.0714秒）

但是当我添加order by子句（在索引列上）

SELECT DISTINCT  `tracked_twitter`.id
FROM tracked_twitter
INNER JOIN  `twitter_content` ON  `tracked_twitter`.`id` =  `twitter_content`.`tracked_twitter_id` 
INNER JOIN  `tracker_twitter_content` ON  `twitter_content`.`id` =  `tracker_twitter_content`.`twitter_content_id` 
AND  `tracker_twitter_content`.`tracker_id` =  '88'
ORDER BY tracked_twitter.followers_count DESC 
LIMIT 20

显示第0-19行（共20行，查询耗时13.4636秒）

说明

当我仅在其表中实现order by子句时，不会花费太多时间

SELECT * FROM `tracked_twitter` WHERE 1 order by `followers_count` desc limit 20

显示第0-19行（共20行，查询耗时0.0711秒）[followers_count：68236387-10525612]

表创建查询如下

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tracked_twitter` (
    `id` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
    `handle` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
    `name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
    `location` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
    `description` text COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci,
    `profile_image` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
    `followers_count` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `is_influencer` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
    `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
    `updated_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
    `gender` enum('Male','Female','Other') COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci 
     DEFAULT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
     KEY `followers_count` (`followers_count`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

因此，当我在其表上执行查询时，join并不会因工作良好而减慢查询和顺序。那么如何提高性能呢？

更新1

@GordonLinoff方法解决是否只需要父表的结果集。我想知道每人tweets的数量（与tracked_twitter表匹配的twitter_content的数量）。我该如何修改？如果我想在推文内容上使用数学函数，该怎么做？

SELECT  `tracked_twitter` . * , COUNT( * ) AS twitterContentCount, retweet_count + favourite_count + reply_count AS engagement
FROM  `tracked_twitter` 
INNER JOIN  `twitter_content` ON  `tracked_twitter`.`id` =  `twitter_content`.`tracked_twitter_id` 
INNER JOIN  `tracker_twitter_content` ON  `twitter_content`.`id` =  `tracker_twitter_content`.`twitter_content_id` 
WHERE  `is_influencer` !=  '1'
AND  `tracker_twitter_content`.`tracker_id` =  '88'
AND  `tracked_twitter_id` !=  '0'
GROUP BY  `tracked_twitter`.`id` 
ORDER BY twitterContentCount DESC 
LIMIT 20 
OFFSET 0