diff --git a/src/api.ts b/src/api.ts
index 39536bbe..b800d2ff 100644
--- a/src/api.ts
+++ b/src/api.ts
@@ -81,12 +81,16 @@ export async function requestApi<T>(
     auth instanceof TwitterGuestAuth &&
     auth.options?.experimental?.xClientTransactionId
   ) {
-    const transactionId = await generateTransactionId(
-      url,
-      auth.fetch.bind(auth),
-      method,
-    );
-    headers.set('x-client-transaction-id', transactionId);
+    try {
+      const transactionId = await generateTransactionId(
+        url,
+        auth.fetch.bind(auth),
+        method,
+      );
+      headers.set('x-client-transaction-id', transactionId);
+    } catch (err) {
+      log('Failed to generate x-client-transaction-id, falling back gracefully: %s', (err as Error).message);
+    }
   }
 
   if (body && method === 'POST') {
diff --git a/src/auth-user.ts b/src/auth-user.ts
index 4ff3dacf..74f69a7b 100644
--- a/src/auth-user.ts
+++ b/src/auth-user.ts
@@ -969,12 +969,16 @@ export class TwitterUserAuth extends TwitterGuestAuth {
 
     // Generate x-client-transaction-id if enabled - real browsers send this during login.
     if (this.options?.experimental?.xClientTransactionId) {
-      const transactionId = await generateTransactionId(
-        onboardingTaskUrl,
-        this.fetch.bind(this),
-        'POST',
-      );
-      headers.set('x-client-transaction-id', transactionId);
+      try {
+        const transactionId = await generateTransactionId(
+          onboardingTaskUrl,
+          this.fetch.bind(this),
+          'POST',
+        );
+        headers.set('x-client-transaction-id', transactionId);
+      } catch (err) {
+        log('Failed to generate x-client-transaction-id, falling back gracefully: %s', (err as Error).message);
+      }
     }
 
     // Strip flow_name from the body: real browsers only send it in the URL query parameter.
diff --git a/src/tweets.ts b/src/tweets.ts
index c427d146..0d00fb94 100644
--- a/src/tweets.ts
+++ b/src/tweets.ts
@@ -377,10 +377,13 @@ export async function getLatestTweet(
 ): Promise<Tweet | null | void> {
   const timeline = getTweets(user, max, auth);
 
-  // No point looping if max is 1, just use first entry.
-  return max === 1
-    ? (await timeline.next()).value
-    : await getTweetWhere(timeline, { isRetweet: includeRetweets });
+  return getTweetWhere(timeline, (tweet) => {
+    // Skip pinned tweets; they always appear first in the timeline.
+    if (tweet.isPin) return false;
+    // If includeRetweets is false, skip retweets too.
+    if (!includeRetweets && tweet.isRetweet) return false;
+    return true;
+  });
 }
 
 export interface TweetResultByRestId {